Grammar of Order. Historical sociology of concepts that change our reality

The book of the sociologist Alexander Bikbova is the result of many years of study by the author of the Russian and Soviet society, as well as the fundamental introduction to the historical sociology of concepts. Analysis of large-scale social changes is connected here with a detailed study of the relationship between concepts from a public dictionary of different periods. The author clarifies the device of the Russian society of the last 20 years, social interactions and struggle that unfold around the concepts of middle class, democracy, Russian science, Russian nation. The reader also gets the opportunity to familiarize himself with the revolutionary scientific approach to the study of the Soviet period, recreation of non-obvious circumstances of the social and political history of the concepts of scientific and technical progress, comprehensively developed personality, Socialistic humanism, social problem. Rare in Russian studies attention is paid to the role of academic examination in making meaning to the political regime.
The study covers the time from the era of the public lift of the last third of the XIX century. Until the protest rallies, which began in 2011, the disclosure of similarities and differences in the Russian and European (primarily French) social history gives the study of special illustrative and depth. The book is distinguished by theoretical novelty, nontrivial research techniques, clarity of presentation and brilliant systematization by the author of an extensive actual material. She will meet undoubted interest among sociologists and historians of Russia and the USSR, social linguists, philosophers, students and graduate students studying Russian society, as well as a wide range of educated and critical readers