The book is a valuable input into realizing in what kind of society people live. It reveals that the past and the present of the Russian society can be understood only through consideration of an increasingly important and contradictory role of the …
Serii︠a︡ "Arkheografii︠a︡ i istochnikovedenie Sibiri"
Various aspects of studying Old Russian and Old Belief literature, the development of book culture, the history of the spiritual culture in Russia and Siberia in the XVII-XXth centuries are considered.
The book is devoted to the analysis of modern state and of specific forms of local communities' adaptation to the processes of second-order modernization developing in modern Russia in present time. Rich empirical material concerning all sides of lo…