Mental health is determined as a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is ...able to make a contribution to his or her community (WHO 2014, 2017). By taking the example of the elderly population of Russia the article reveals the existence and nature of ties between individual socio-economic characteristics of the older age people and the level of their mental health. The article presents the author’s method of assessment of mental health of the elderly population, which is based on a brief scale of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). Individual data from the WHO International Study of Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) conducted in the regions of Russia in 2002-2004 (wave 0) and in 2007-2010 (wave 1) are used as the empirical basis of the study.
In the 80s and 90s of the 20th century, womens literature in Russia began to rapidly develop and become recognized as a special phenomenon - for the first time after the last turn of the epoch: ...Soviet literature was rarely considered in Russian literary criticism from a gender point of view. The creativity of modern women writers became a vivid phenomenon in the context of the Russian literary process, revealed a unique female view of many socio-psychological problems, and in its own way reflected the historical turning point experienced by Russian society. In China, traditionally sensitive to Russian culture, the growth of female literature in Russia was noted almost immediately, and Chinese scientists have so far achieved considerable results in studying the specifics of themes, plots, typology of heroes, artistic styles, and the language of Russian female literature. This article is aimed at summarizing the current state of research on the work of Russian writers in China. It presents both generalizing works and materials devoted to individual writers personalities (L. Petrushevskaya, T. Tolstaya, L. Ulitskaya).
The article is devoted to the aesthetically valuable picture of the world in the poetics of N.V. Gogol and F.M. Dostoevsky. As well as icon of the world with iconic images belonging to her which ...serves as a way of demonstrating and expressing the tune full of divine grace. The discovering of the Russian icon began and the interest to this phenomenon arose at the beginning of the twentieth century. Various researches concerning painting and icon painting, as well as literature and philology, philosophy and theology appeared. Many literature researches were dedicated to the "iconology," the study about the icon, combining problems connected with an image, icon painting and icon worship. The comparison of an icon and a picture, icon painting and religious painting, icon canon and the creative freedom took an important place. When considering icons from the aesthetic point of view, unusual opportunities for studying both the Orthodox culture and elegant literature appear. The "icon" proceeds to the literary context and as a general idea embraces a level of mind, defines the type of the mindset. The "iconicity" becomes not just a religious art or architecture term, but also a term about a piece of art. Therefore, the iconicity of the verbal types of art is difficult and complex, but very relevant and topical. Keywords picture of the world; an icon of the world; iconic artistic image; tune
This article is the result of a two-hour workshop given to new faculty attending the International Scientific School on Engineering Education for New Industrialization held in Kazan, Tatarstan from ...September 23–28, 2013. The goal of the workshop was to help faculty who are interested in publishing in English at conferences. The workshop had three parts: selecting the best venue, creating an interesting title and writing a good abstract.
The article investigates the novel by Ivan Sergeevich Shmelev “The Sun of the Dead” (1923), dedicated to the Civil War in Russia as one of the most critical periods in Russian history. The text of ...the work, considered by the authors of the article to be an expression of “a story told”, thematizes, for example, the relationship between the Bolsheviks and the Church, the purposeful destruction of the intelligentsia, the use of hunger as a tool of the population control, the barbaric treatment of the civilian population, the disrespect for the workers on whose behalf the Bolsheviks incited the revolution and the depreciation of human life and material wealth. The novel also accuses Europe of having idly watched the destruction of the remnants of old Russia. The analysis is based mainly on historical and comparative methods, with the help of which the text of the work is associated with historical events, on the one hand, and with the biblical New Testament text, primarily with the “Revelation to St. John”, on the other. The analysis carried out shows that the writer’s creative plan is based on the belief that the Civil War represents the end of one era, which is primarily shown in the signs that can be associated with the images of biblical horsemen who bring destruction. The comparative analysis confirms that in his novel, Shmelev touches on the motifs found in the Bible. In the text of the novel, special attention is paid to the motif of the end and the themes of destruction and annihilation, which are considered universal by the biblical text. Shmelev’s almost documentary text depicts them as phenomena characterizing the dangerous sprouts of a new way of life in post-revolutionary Russia. At the end of the article, the main conclusions are formulated, which are based on the opinion that Shmelev managed to include both the structure and the thematic elements of the biblical text in the novel “The Sun of the Dead”, building the novel as a stylized, updated version of the apocalypse. The text under consideration can be viewed both as “evidence” and as a historical document, which, from the point of view of an eyewitness acting in the person of the narrator, reflects the process of the formation of Soviet power in Crimea in connection with a more widely understood historical context, both Russian and European.
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