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n.biryukov@inno.mgimo.ru
Graduate (cum laude) of MGIMO (1972); Candidate of Philosophical Sciences (≈ Ph. D.) (1983); Docent (1994); Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, MGIMO-University (since 1979, present position, since 1988).
Courses taught (MGIMO-University, at present, listed alphabetically):
- Philosophy.
- Philosophy (in English).
- History and Philosophy of Science,
- History of Philosophical Ideas.
- History of Russian Philosophy (in English).
- Logic.
Courses taught (MGIMO-University, in former years, listed alphabetically):
- The Basics of Philosophy.
- The Basics of Social Analysis.
- Classical Indian Philosophy,
- Contemporary Russian Parliamentarianism (in English).
- Ethics.
- Marxist Philosophy.
- Institutional Foundations of Democracy.
- Political Culture and Social Integration.
- Social and Political Philosophy.
- Sociology of Political Leadership.
- Theory and Practice of Political Representation.
- Topical Philosophical Issues.
Courses taught (elsewhere in Russia, listed alphabetically):
- The Basics of Social Science.
- Contemporary Western Philosophy.
- History of Atheism.
- History of British and American Philosophy.
- History of Classical Philosophy.
- History of Islam in the USSR.
- History of Modern Russia.
- History of Philosophy.
- History of Religion.
- History of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- Moral Philosophy.
- Political Philosophy.
- The Bible as a Historical Source.
Courses taught (elsewhere outside Russia, listed alphabetically):
- Contemporary Russian Politics (in English).
- Soviet Politics after Stalin (in English).
Major publications (books only, listed chronologically):
- Russia’s Road to Democracy: Parliament, Communism and Traditional Culture (with V. Sergeyev). — Aldershot, Hampshire; Brookfiled, Vermont: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1993 (Studies of Communism in Transition) (ISBN 1-85278-851-8).
- Russian Politics in Transition: Institutional Conflict in a Nascent Democracy (with V. Sergeyev). — Aldershot, Hampshire; Brookfield, Vermont; Singapore; Sidney: Ashgate Publishing, 1997 (Leeds Studies in Democratization) (ISBN 1-85521-975-1).
- Stanovlenie institutov predstavitel’noy vlasti v sovremennoy Rossii [The Making of Representative Institutions in Contemporary Russia] (with V. Sergeyev). — Moscow: Agentstvo «Izdatel’skiy servis», 2004 (ISBN 5-98425002-0).
- Osnovy filosofii; multimediynoe uchebnoe posobie [The Basics of Philosophy: A Multimedia Manual]. — Moscow: MGIMO-University, 2008 (ISBN: 978-5-9228-0467-7).
- Mezhkulturnaya kommunikatsiya v usloviyakh globalizatsii: uchebnoe posobie [Intercultural Communications under Conditions of Globalization: A Manual] (with V.Glagolev, A.Samarin, M.Silantyeva, N.Zarubina, T.Zonova). — Moscow: Prospekt, 2010 (ISBN 978-5-392-01686-0).
- Mezhkulturnaya kommunikatsiya v usloviyakh globalizatsii: uchebnoe posobie [Intercultural Communications under Conditions of Globalization: A Manual] (with V.Glagolev, A.Samarin, M.Silantyeva, N.Zarubina, T.Zonova). — 2nd ed. revised and expanded. — Moscow: Prospekt, 2016 (ISBN 978-5-392-19300-4).
- Osnovy formal’noy logiki: multimediynoe uchebnoe posobie [The Basics of Formal Logic: A Multimedia Manual]. — Moscow: MGIMO-University, 2016 (ISBN 978-5-9228-1353-2).
- The Basics of Philosophy: A Multimedia Manual. — MGIMO-University, 2016 (MGIMO Books for International Students) (ISBN 978-5-9228-1345-7).
- Russia’s Road to Democracy: Parliament, Communism and Traditional Culture (with V. Sergeyev). — Aldershot, Hampshire; Brookfiled, Vermont: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1993 (Studies of Communism in Transition) (electronic version: ISBN 9781782543497) (https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=AtfXsm0jysYC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=ru&pg=GBS; https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Victor_Sergeyev_Russia_s_Road_to_Democracy?id=AtfXsm0jysYC; https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=AtfXsm0jysYC&hl=ru).
- Russian Politics in Transition: Institutional Conflict in a Nascent Democracy (with V. Sergeyev). — Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York: Routledge, 2018 (Routledge Revivals). — 329 p. (ISBN: hbk — 978-1-138-35421-0; ebk — 978-0-429-42497-7; eBook — 9780429756603) (дата публикации: 8.XI.2018) (https://www.routledge.com/Russian-Politics-in-Transition-1st-Edition/Biryukov-Sergeyev/p/book/9780429424977; https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Nikolai_Biryukov_Russian_Politics_in_Transition?id=FHp_DwAAQBAJ).
- Mezhkulturnaya kommunikatsiya v usloviyakh globalizatsii: uchebnoe posobie [Intercultural Communications under Conditions of Globalization: A Manual] (with V. Glagolev, A. Samarin, M. Silantyeva, N. Zarubina, T. Zonova). — 2nd ed. revised and expanded. — Moscow: Prospekt, 2019 (ISBN 978-5-392-29611-8).
- Filosofiya kul’tury d sisteme izucheniya mezhdumarodnykh otnosheniy: monografiya. — Kn. 1: Paradoksy issledovatel’skoy prizmy [Philosophy of Culture in the Study of International Relations: A Monograph. — Book 1: Paradoxes of the Research Prism] (with V. Glagolev, V. Pechatnov, V. Shestak, M. Silantyeva, N. Zheludova). — Moscow: MGIMO-University, 2020. — 543, [2] p. — (ISBN 978-5-9228-2113-1; Bk 1: 978-5-9228-2111-7) (MGIMO Scientific School).
For the full list of publications, as well as for various educational materials, go to the personal website at nibiryukov.mgimo.ru.
- Accessible at MGIMO Distance Education Portal are:
- The Basics of Philosophy: a video course of 32 lectures (in Russian). — ed.mgimo.ru/course/view.php?id=7 (account required for registration); accessible to ordinary users at Youtube (for the list of lectures and links to individual video files, see nibiryukov.mgimo.ru/nb_russian/nbr_teaching/nbr_teach_video/nbr_osnovy_filosofii_videokurs.htm.
- The Basics of Formal Logic: 11 PowerPoint Presentations of lectures (in Russian). — ed.mgimo.ru/course/view.php?id=82 (account required for registration); accessible to ordinary users at nibiryukov.mgimo.ru/nb_russian/nbr_teaching/nbr_teach_ppp/nbr_ppp_osnovy_formalnoy_logiki.htm.
- The Basics of Philosophy: 18 PowerPoint presentations of lectures (in English). — ed.mgimo.ru/course/view.php?id=81 (account required for registration); accessible to ordinary users at nibiryukov.mgimo.ru/nb_english/nbe_teaching/nbe_teach_ppp/nbe_ppp_the_basics_of_philosophy.htm.
Memberships:
- The Russian Philosophical Society;
- The Russian Political Science Association;
- Russian International Studies Association;
- Vestnik rossiyskogo filosofskogo obshchestva (The Bulletin of the Russian Philosophical Society), Editorial Board.