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Nikolay Biryukov

Nikolay Biryukov

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+7 495 234-83-48 (inner 10-09)
Room: 4105
n.biryukov@inno.mgimo.ru

Ph.D. (Candidate of Philosophical Sciences), Associate Professor School of Government and International Affairs - Faculty MemberDepartment of Philosophy - Associate Professor

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):

  1. Philosophy.
  2. Philosophy (in English).
  3. History and Philosophy of Science,
  4. History of Philosophical Ideas.
  5. History of Russian Philosophy (in English).
  6. Logic.

Courses taught (MGIMO-University, in former years, listed alphabetically):

  1. The Basics of Philosophy.
  2. The Basics of Social Analysis.
  3. Classical Indian Philosophy,
  4. Contemporary Russian Parliamentarianism (in English).
  5. Ethics.
  6. Marxist Philosophy.
  7. Institutional Foundations of Democracy.
  8. Political Culture and Social Integration.
  9. Social and Political Philosophy.
  10. Sociology of Political Leadership.
  11. Theory and Practice of Political Representation.
  12. Topical Philosophical Issues.

Courses taught (elsewhere in Russia, listed alphabetically):

  1. The Basics of Social Science.
  2. Contemporary Western Philosophy.
  3. History of Atheism.
  4. History of British and American Philosophy.
  5. History of Classical Philosophy.
  6. History of Islam in the USSR.
  7. History of Modern Russia.
  8. History of Philosophy.
  9. History of Religion.
  10. History of the Russian Orthodox Church.
  11. Moral Philosophy.
  12. Political Philosophy.
  13. The Bible as a Historical Source.

Courses taught (elsewhere outside Russia, listed alphabetically):

  1. Contemporary Russian Politics (in English).
  2. Soviet Politics after Stalin (in English).

Major publications (books only, listed chronologically):

  1. 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).
  2. 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).
  3. 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).
  4. Osnovy filosofii; multimediynoe uchebnoe posobie [The Basics of Philosophy: A Multimedia Manual]. — Moscow: MGIMO-University, 2008 (ISBN: 978-5-9228-0467-7).
  5. 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).
  6. 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).
  7. 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).
  8. The Basics of Philosophy: A Multimedia Manual. — MGIMO-University, 2016 (MGIMO Books for International Students) (ISBN 978-5-9228-1345-7).
  9. 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).
  10. 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).
  11. 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).
  12. 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.

  1. Accessible at MGIMO Distance Education Portal are:
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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:

  1. The Russian Philosophical Society;
  2. The Russian Political Science Association;
  3. Russian International Studies Association;
  4. Vestnik rossiyskogo filosofskogo obshchestva (The Bulletin of the Russian Philosophical Society), Editorial Board.
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