Опубликовано в журнале Вестник Европы, номер 6, 2002
The sixth volume of “the Herald of Europe” (2002) opens with Valerie Mildon’s article ▒’New feudalism. Joseph de Mestre. Alexis de Tocqueville and Vladimir G. Korolenko on Revolution’’. The author dedicated his essay to the 85th anniversary of the events of October, 1917. In the study solved in the comparativistic genre are presented the quotations from different authors of different epoques. It contributes to better understanding of the revolutionary processes. George Soros’s article “The impoverishment” touches globalization and the economic processes. Constantine Chellini reviews the foreign literature on globalization and tries to analyze the key problems of globalisation, as covered in it. The same theme, but in deeply historical understanding, continues Grigory Pomerants’s essay. “Europe and America: are they drifting apart?” – with this discussion of the recent issues of the leading British journal “Prospect” we start the series of materials on the burning issues of the European politics. In the “Contemporary archive” section are published the recent quotations on the Kaliningrad problem. The editor-in chief of the journal Victor Yaroshenko in his “Kalinov most” essay tells about his “journeys to Kant” and addresses the deep socio-humanitarian aspects of the Kaliningrad problem.
In the “Literature” section we publish the contemporary Polish prose. Andjei Merncwel’s story “Kaliningrad – my love” miraculously intertwines into the complex net of politics with its foreign political accent. In the section “The rage of day” is presented Eugeny Popov’s prose “Luscious hell. Love story”. “New poems by Vladimir Salimon have found place on the pages of our journal. A story by Oleg Hafizzov, a young writer not yet known to Moscow readers,“Her name was Misha” attracts a special attention. Igor Pomerantsev has presented his new poems and an essay as his reaction to the recent European disasters. The translation out of Peter Akroid’s ▒’The city of contrasts’’ illustrated with the color photographs of London, create a complicated context, full with sound and visual images. A well-known Russian poet Kimur Kibirov publishes his new poems. The section is closed by Grigory Ball, whose complicated allusive prose hasn’t been yet known to Russian readers.
Vladimir Kantor in his article “Philosophy of axe and philosophy of salvation’’ continues to study the phenomenon of Russian Europeanism. In the series of publications “200 years to Karamzin’s “the Herald of Europe”” we publish for the first time in the Russian language prof. Antony Cross’s article “N.M. Karamzin’s The Herald of Europe. 1802-1803”. It’s a glance on the Russian journalistic of a western scholar. In Samson’s Madyenvsky’s (Aachen) essay the author’s attention is drawn to ”The relations of protestant churches of Germany to Israel and to Palestinian-Israeli conflict”. The article by a priest Georgy Chistyakov “Martyrdom as a phenomenon” encompasses the destinies of the Christian tradition in the contemporary world.
The section “Culture’’ is opened with the publication on the talented producer Mathew Barnie which is the first in the Russian language — Alexey Parshikov “Digital satyr. The notes on Mathew Barnie”. The essay of the poet and materialist is supplemented with a publication of his poems, presenting his talent from a new side . Our constant correspondent Natalya Isaeva in her publication “The cash department of books and syllables. The notes from the Avignon festival” . makes a sui generis outcome of one of the most notable events of the European cultural life. Natalya Kazmina offers to the readers a portrait of the film director “Three Sturuas and one more”. Tatyana Sherbina presents the film “11/2 Tom-cats’’ of A. Khrja-nowsky. On the occasion of Arnold Becklin’s jubilee Alexey Mokroussov has prepared exclusively for “the Herald of Europe” an article “A matter of case”. The journal starts to publish a series of discussions with the European politicians with a discussion with the lord Bryan Makkenzie. A short essay “The House to be proud of” narrates the history of the House of Lords. The section “Literature as a business’’ is continued by the general director of the ROSSPEN publishing house Andrey Sorokin, interviewed by the responsible secretary of our journal. The section is closed with book reviews and an essay on radio “ The walk across the virtual world. A person for every day”.