The sixty seventh issue of Neprikosnovenny Zapas, being formally not a thematic one, consists basically of texts devoted to "theory". This includes an attempt to construct "the theory of fear" as a phenomenon of public consciousness (the article "Fear from the year 2009" by Alexander Pyatigorsky), a discussion on interference of the political theory and de-politization practices after the example of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalysis (conversation with the French psychoanalyst, Jacques-Alain Miller). The analysis of reasons for "theoretical poverty" of the modern Russian historiography is provided in the article "Histories that are not written by us" by the Moscow mediaevalist, Jury Zaretsky). We also mention the reasoning behind some features of practices in modern academic life by Mikhail Sokolov ("Academic tourism: about one form of secondary adaptation to institutes of international science").

The first main topic of the sixty seventh issue is devoted to one of the versions of leftist political theory. The authors presented in this section identify themselves as the "Left". Accordingly, the reader faces a kind of "introspection" – which of course excludes neither critics, nor polemics. Alexander Tarasov ("Mother of disorder"), Vadim Damier and Dmitry Rublev ("The economic views of Peter Kropotkin and challenges of the twenty first century") write on the controversies of the theory and practice of anarchy; Alexander Shubin tries to grasp an image of what he calls "socialism of the twenty first century", and Boris Kagarlitsky gives a critical analysis of the intellectuals on the left who are not ready, in his opinion, for a radical change of society. This selection of articles is adjoined by a research of history of so-called "Socialist international of patients" – a leftist German organization at the end of the 1960s, beginning of the 1970s ("Murderer of white gowns" by Evgeniy Kazakov).

"The left theme" is partly continued in the second part devoted to out-of-market, out-of-state manufacture and culture reproduction (or to be more precise, "cultures" in the plural, and even "subcultures"). Different aspects of this phenomenon in a modern society are analysed in the texts of Alexander Bikbov ("Economy and policy of critical judgment") and Vlad Tupikin ("Note about Russian-speaking Samizdat in the 1990s and 2000s"). Alexander Bikbov, besides his own article, is presented in the interview with the Petersburg artist Dmitry Vilensky. We would also like to draw attention to the conversation between the writer Magnus Edgren and director Emmanuel Ruglan on "employment in cultural manufacture". Edgren and Ruglan concentrate mainly on the situation in French culture (cinema, TV, theatre) where the state plays an important role. The article on the relatively new political "blogger" culture in Great Britain introduces the well known British journalists Ian Dale. The subculture of squatters in the Republic of South Africa is the theme of the article by Olga Aksjutina and Daria Zelenova. Authors of the regular columns "Political imaginary" and "Sociological lyrics" also contribute to the sixty seventh issue of NZ on the topic of the political "left": about anarchism (Alexander Kustarev) and about socialism in its present Russian state version (Alexey Levinson). These texts are adjourned by the article by the NZ editor in chief Ilya Kalinin "The heroic theatre of revolutionary life".

Besides the "left" theme and analysis of the subcultures connected therewith, there is Dmitry Panchenko's research devoted to the important historiography problem of chronological frameworks of the "New time". It is worth paying attention to the two interviews: the first one is with the well-known British historian Geoffrey Hosking (about WWII which had its seventieth anniversary this year in September) and the second with Alvaro Gil-Robles, the former Commissioner of human rights of the European Council. The theme of the Russian twentieth century is continued in Lyudmila Klimovich's conversations with members of the National-Labor Union (NTS) which may become an important source in the study of the history of the organization. At the end of the issue there is an overview of intellectual magazines (Vyacheslav Morozov, Peter Rezvyh) and book reviews among which we should mention Alexander Bobrakov-Timoshkin's response to the new Czech edition of memoirs of the last president of the first Czechoslovak republic, Edvard Benes.

Published 2009-11-30