Vol. 2, No. 4

• Word from the Editor-in-Chief

300th Anniversary of the Birth of Immanuel Kant

1. Eugene N. Ivakhnenko
   “Perpetual Peace” as Immanuel Kant's philosophical testament to our contemporaries pages 7 - 24

80 Years of the Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

1. Tatyana P. Filippova, Kseniya I. Chuprova
   Ideological Party Control over Activities: The Bases of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the 1940s pages 25 - 39
2. Alexandra A. Brovina, Olga A. Valkova
   The world of nature in the fate and scientific work of V.A. Varsanofieva pages 40 - 54

100th Anniversary of the Publication of Friedrich Engels Dialectics of Nature (1925)

1. Roman A. Fando
   A Search for Dialectical Foundations of Science: from the History of Discussions among Soviet Scientists in the 1920s and 1930s pages 55 - 74
2. Ivan V. Sozinov
   Towards the History of Publishing F. Engels' ‘Dialectics of Nature’: the Beginning of the ‘Dialectification of Natural Science’ in the USSR pages 75 - 96
3. Tatyana I. Khorkhordina
   David Borisovich Ryazanov: as Director of the K. Marx and F. Engels Institute: Serving Science pages 97 - 119
4. Andrei I. Ermolaev
   Vasilii Nikolaevich Slepkov, geneticist and ‘‘Mensheviking idealist’’ pages 120 - 134
5. Sergey N. Korsakov
   The Mechanist L.M. Rubanovskii, Specialist in the History and Philosophy of Science pages 135 - 153
6. Polina A. Zakharchuk, Alexander S. Platitsyn
   Ideologization of research in the history of metallurgy in the USSR: problems, questions, disputes pages 154 - 172

Philosophical Perspective

1. Natalia I. Kuznetsova
   “Our Dialectics Were Not Learned from Hegel”: The Phenomenon of the Hegelian Seminars in the Soviet Philosophy of Science (an Interview) pages 173 - 192

Visual Sources

1. Evgeniy V. Pchelov
   Soviet graphic Engelsiana: From Marx's shadow to a comic character pages 193 - 215

History of Technology

1. A.F. Smyk, Marina V. Yashina
   Mechanisms and Methods of Applied Mathematics in the Works of S.A. Gershgorin pages 216 - 228
2. Svetlana A. Pozhidaeva, Vasily G. Shishka
   The First Pre-1900 Hybrid Cars in the Late 19th Century Publications pages 229 - 237

People of Science

1. Nadezhda A. Egorova
   Scientific heritage of Graduates of the Harbin Polytechnic Institute pages 238 - 245

Publication of Documents

1. Oleg N. Naumov
   Bibliographer D.V. Ulyaninsky's Letters to the Scholars and Cultural Actors pages 246 - 270
2. Aleksei V. Sobisevich, Temurmalik K. Kholmatov
   A.I. Shastov's Report (1936) on the Preparation of the “Geography of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic” pages 271 - 282

Reviews

1. Alexander Yu. Samarin
   An Ornithologist of a Son about his Historian of a Father pages 283 - 290
2. Mikhail Yu. Cherednichenko
   How Domestic Genetics Was Forged pages 291 - 301

Scientific Life

1. Daniil A. Vishniakov
   IHST RAS X Scientific School of Young Scientists “Science and Technology in the Context of Regional Development” pages 302 - 310
2. Maria A. Pomelova, Vladislav V. Stasenko
   IV Congress of the Russian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science: “Science, Technology and Values in the Unstable World” pages 311 - 315
3. Mariya V. Malunova
   Historical and Documentary Exhibition “Hello, Virgin Land!” pages 316 - 320