Volume 68, Number 1, 1998

Contents
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Simultaneous English language translation of the journal is available from maik nauka / Interperiodica Publishing (Russia).
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences
ISSN 1019-3316.


Science and Society

V. V. Alekseev and B. V. Litvinov

The Soviet Atomic Project as a Phenomenon of the Mobilization Economy p. 1  abstract

E. V. Balatskii

Small Business, Joint Ventures, and Foreign Companies in the Russian Transition Economy p. 7  abstract

On the Threshold of the New Millennium p. 12


Organization of Research Activity

G. A. Zavarzin and V. M. Kotlyakov

The Strategy of Earth Studies in the Light of the Global Change p. 26  abstract

V. N. Mikhailov

The Science Policy of Russia’s Ministry of Atomic Energy p. 33  abstract


Problems of Ecology

G. N. Petrov and N. A. Yasamanov

Latest Technologies: Toward the Noosphere or a Catastrophe? p. 45  abstract


From a Researcher’s Notebook

S. P. Kapitsa

The Major Problem Facing Humankind p. 49  abstract


Point of View

V. L. Ginzburg

Why Soviet Scientists Did Not Always Get the Nobel Prize They Deserved p. 56  abstract


History of Academy Institutions

G. A. Arbatov

30th Anniversary of the Institute of USA and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences p. 60


Discussion Forum

V.L. Ginzburg

How Should the Elections to the Russian Academy of Sciences Be Organized? p. 68  abstract

N.A. Platé

Once More about the Elections: Reflections after the Event p. 70


Profiles

L. V. Mankova

The First Director of the Academy of Sciences p. 72  abstract

M.I. Kaganov

In Memory of Viktor Yakovlevich Frenkel’ p. 77  abstract


Bygone Times

G.I. Anokhin

One-Settlement Peoples p. 82


Official Section

AWARDS AND PRIZES p. 86


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