Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Volume 66, Number 3, 1996

Science and Society


 V. N. Kudryavtsev
New Russia: Development Criteria 
p. 173

 I. A. Vasilenko
A Dialogue of Cultures, a Dialogue of Civilizations 
p. 180

 S. I. Lounev and A. I. Salitskii
Poverty of Impoverishment? 
p. 188


 Organization of Research Activity


Russian Engineering Academy: The First Five Years of Operation
Discussion in the RAS Presidium
p. 195

 N. P. Laverov and K. N. Trubetskoi
Mining Sciences in the System of Earth Sciences 
p. 203

 A. M. Pavlov
Dynamics of Discoveries and Inventions (1931–1990) 
p. 210


 From a Researcher's Notebook


 V. N. Anisimov and V. N. Krut'ko
Good Health Is Self-Sufficiency
p. 214

 R. A. Pavlygina*
The Dominant as a Vector of Behavior 
p. 218


 Profiles


 G.A. Zavarzin
Excerpt from the History of General Microbiology in Russia
Academician B.L. Isachenko's 125th Birth Anniversary 
p. 222


  Point of View


 P. M. Ivanov
The Nationalities Issue: The Need for a New Approach 
p. 230


Times and Mores: Memoirs, Letters, Diaries


 L. P. Petrovskii
The Unknown Sakharov 
p. 234

 G. I. Anokhin
Luis—Brother of Trotsky's Assassin 
p. 244


Bygone Times


 I.N. Selezneva,
Years of Starvation 
p. 250


  Science News


 I.A. Maksimova
Is It Easy to Be a Young Scientist? 
p. 261


Book Review


 S.Z. Sluch
Lebedeva, N.S., Katyn: Prestuplenie protiv chelovechestva
(Katyn: A Crime against Humanity), Moscow: AO Progress, 1994 
p. 265


Official Section


AWARDS AND PRISES 
p. 269