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social sciences and civil society
in Russia and everywhere
social sciences and civil society
in Russia and everywhere
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why we created the center
I visit various city libraries, and everywhere I go, I ask, just in case, if they have Arendt in the paper. The answer is the same everywhere: ‘No, everything is out, demand is very high’
Olga, a researcher at the Center
Olga, a researcher at the Center
In Russia, now is a dark time. To ensure its end and promote sustainable peace, human rights, solidarity, and responsibility, Russia will have to be rebuilt. Here and abroad, civil society needs educated guidance and new answers to the questions of social policies, ethics, and morality.
And yet, the data and understanding that would help find the correct answers are covered and distorted by the darkness.
We want to turn
totalitarian regimes have discovered without knowing it that there are crimes which man can neither punish nor forgive. When the impossible was made possible it became unpunishable, unforgivable absolute radical evil which could no longer be understood and explained…we may say that radical evil has emerged in connection with a system in which all men have become equally superfluous…
we may say that radical evil has emerged in connection with a system in which all men have become equally superfluous…totalitarian regimes have discovered without knowing it that there are crimes which man can neither punish nor forgive. When the impossible was made possible it became unpunishable, unforgivable absolute radical evil which could no longer be understood and explained…
our projects
Independent researches on inequality, horizontal relations and civil identity in Russia through the prism of sociology, psychology, economics, linguistics, data analysis, and its application to civil society.
Main ethical principles: empathy for the people about whom and for whom we conduct studies, reflexivity, and avoiding harm.
Main ethical principles: empathy for the people about whom and for whom we conduct studies, reflexivity, and avoiding harm.
human rights advocacy
state violence in Russia
Sociological study of state violence and perceptions of it, carried out at the request of Crew Against Torture. The study is available for download in English
The sociology and psychology of the profession of advocate in Russia, its cultural and historical heritage, unique challenges, and lessons learned.
human rights advocate in Russia
education
school of the dark times
Research on the career and educational choices of contemporary Russian high schoolers and their life trajectories, and the new challenges and opportunities for the educational system.
liberal talks
Teaching materials for the Russian school teachers who have to conduct state-induced patriotic lessons for them to use those classes as a way to promote free thinking and solidarity instead.
legal aid chat line “the cheat sheet”
Legal and psychological chat line to support politically oppressed teachers, students, and parents in Russia.
communities
the holy fathers
A study of Russian church-parish communities that focuses on finding tools for building solidarity.
The anthropology of the Russian IT community.
russian hackers
An anthropological study of a new social class of Russian IT intelligentsia.
culture
touch nothing toxic
Research on how therapeutic turn in culture meets dictatorship.
memory work: post-soviet heritage
An exploration of historical memory.
data collection
russia verstehen
Qualitative longitudinal data on Russia.
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