Number 1, 1989

Looking Ahead to the CPSU Central Committee Plenary Session on Improving Interethnic Relations in the USSR

A Joint Session of the Learned Council of the Institute of Ethnography, the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the Interdisciplinary Council on Studying Ethnic Processes

On Developing Ethnic Problems in the Light of the Resolutions of the XIX Party Conference

Yu. V. Bromley

Review of Comments

A Joint Session of the Interdisciplinary Council on Studying Ethnic Processes and the Ethnic Sociology Section of the Soviet Sociological Association

Ethnic Groups within the System of Interethnic Relations in USSR

M. N. Guboglo

Interethnic Relations and Contemporary Tasks of Ethnic Sociology

L. M. Drobizheva

Review of Comments

The Constituent Session of the Ethnic Politics Section of the Soviet Sociological Association

Multinational Society (Contemporary Ethnic Relations in the USSR and the Tasks of Research

I. I. Krupnik

Review of Comments

Discussions

The National Problem and Ways of Its Solution

V. I. Kozlov

On the Concept of Perestroika of Interethnic Relations in the USSR

V. A. Tishkov

Editorial Comment

Articles

Russian Folk Culture and Folk Religion

T. A. Bernshtam

Black-White Intermarriage in the US

E. L. Nitoburg

From the History of Ethnography

Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin (1887—1964)

R. R. Rakhimov

Communications

Mathematical Methods in Soviet Ethnic Geography

V. V. Sazhin

Paleoanthropological Material from Armenian Burial Grounds and the Genesis of the Population of the Kura-Arax Culture

V. P. Alexeyev,  R. A. Mkrtchyan

Searchings, Facts, Hypotheses

Reflections on the Abkhazian Folk Culture

Ya. V. Chesnov

Our Anniversaries

List of Scholarly Works by E. M. Melelinsky, Doctor of Philological Sciences (to His 70th Birthday)

Academic Life

An All-Union Seminar-School «Methodology and Techniques in Studying Ethnic History»

L. T. Yablonsky

Criticism and Bibliography

Critical Articles and Reviews

Finnich Ethnography on Everyday Peasant Life under Capitalism

M. V. Shlygina

General Ethnography

Revolution in Science and Technology and Ethnic Processes

V. I. Kozlov

Peoples of the USSR

Ethnography of the Eastern Slavs. Sketches of Traditional Culture

M. F. Pilipenko

S. M. Chervonnaya. The Art of Tataria

N. A. Tomilov

Obituary

I.R. Grigulevich