Introduction

semiotics and history revisited

Marek Tamm

211-229

Semiotics and culture

the perception of time as a semiotic problem

Boris Uspenskij

230-248

Civilization and barbarism

Carlo Ginzburg

249-262

History as geography

in search for Russian identity

Mihhail Lotman

263-283

The figure of the impostor to the throne in Russian political culture

between sacralization and mimesis

Ilja Kalinin

284-301

Two approaches to the humanities

Claude Levi-Strauss and Germaine Tillion

Tzvetan Todorov

302-316

Semiotics of cultural history

Peeter Torop

317-334

Semiosphere and history

toward the origins of the semiotic approach to history

Mikhail Trunin

335-360

The future orientation of culture and the memory of the past in the making of history

Elżbieta Hałas

361-379

Reading Uspenskij

Soviet "semiotics of history" in the West

Taras Boyko

380-394

Boris Uspenskij in English: bibliography

Taras Boyko

395-403

Boris Uspenskij on history, linguistics and semiotics

Ekaterina Velmezova, Kalevi Kull

404-448