Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Volume 68, Number 1, 1998.

 Science and Society


 V. V. Alekseev and B. V. Litvinov
The Soviet Atomic Project as a Phenomenon of the Mobilization Economy 
p. 1
 
 E. V. Balatskii
Small Business, Joint Ventures, and Foreign Companies in the Russian
Transition Economy 
p. 7  

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
 
 V. N. Mikhailov
The Science Policy of Russia's Ministry of Atomic Energy 
p. 33  


Problems of Ecology


 G. N. Petrov and N. A. Yasamanov
Latest Technologies: Toward the Noosphere or a Catastrophe? 
p. 45  


From a Researcher's Notebook


 S. P. Kapitsa
The Major Problem Facing Humankind 
p. 49  


  Point of View


 V. L. Ginzburg
Why Soviet Scientists Did Not Always Get the Nobel Prize They Deserved
p. 56  


 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  

 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  

 M.I. Kaganov
In Memory of Viktor Yakovlevich Frenkel'
p. 77  


Bygone Times


 G.I. Anokhin
One-Settlement Peoples 
p. 82


 Official Section


AWARDS AND PRIZES
p. 86