Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2004, V 74, N 2.

Science and Society 

A. A. Makarov and V. E. Fortov 
Trends in the Development of World Power Engineering
and Russia’s Energy Strategy 
p. 131   

E. V. Balatski and V. A. Konyshev 
The State Sector of the Economy: 
Institutional Support 
p. 144   

On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium 

N. M. Rimashevskaya 
Modern Russia: Socioeconomic and 
Demographic Problems 
p. 152   

Awareness of the Actual Situation Is the 
Foundation of a Sensible Policy 
A discussion in the RAS Presidium 
p. 158 

Point of View
 
V. A. Chereshnev, E. Yu. Gusev, and L. N. Yurchenko 
Systemic Inflammation: A Myth or Reality? 
p. 161   

E. D. Panov 
Russian-Speaking Intellectual International 
p. 167   


A. P. Nazaretyan 
Anthropogenic Crises: The Hypothesis of 
Techno-Humanitarian Balance 
p. 169   


Interview
  

A Man of 19th-Century Culture 
p. 180   


Profiles
   

M. M. Savchenko 
He Dreamed of a Prosperous Russia
On the 170th Anniversary of the Birth of 
D.I. Mendeleev 
p. 188 

Yu. G. Abov 
From X-ray Tube to Accelerator
On the Centenary of the Birth of 
Academician A.I. Alikhanov 
p. 198

L. N. Lyubinskaya and A. I. Uemov 
Great Discoveries of Henri Poincare
On the 150th Anniversary of His Birth 
p. 205 

N. P. Lyakishev and N. V. Pasechnik 
The Leader of Russian Metallurgical Engineering
On the Centenary of the Birth of A.I. Tselikov 
p. 210 

G. R. Ivanitski 
Time Strings out Priorities …
On the Centenary of the Birth of Academician G.M. Frank 
p. 215 


Bygone Times 


A. V. Pyzhikov 
Sources of the Doctrine of Communist 
Construction in the Soviet Union 
p. 222


Reflections on a New Book 


S. V. Gol’din 
Are Earthquakes Predictable? 
p. 226 


In the Book World 

V. P. Kemenov 
V. P. Borisov, Vladimir Koz’mich Zvorykin 
(Nauka, Moscow, 2002), 150 pp. 
p. 233 

A. L. Lapidus 
I. G. Fuks and A. A. Matvechuk, Illustrated 
Sketches on the History of the Russian Oil 
and Gas Business. Part 2. The Volga–
Kama Basin, Siberia, and the Far East (before 1917) 
(Gazol press, Moscow, 2002), 152 pp. 
p. 236

D. A. Amanzholova 
V. A. Tishkov, The Society in an Armed Conflict: 
Ethnography of the Chechen War, 2nd ed.
(Nauka, Moscow, 2003), 552 pp. 
p. 238 

Official Section
 

Awards and Prizes 
p. 240