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The paper is devoted to the poetry of Boris Volkov, the forgotten author of the Eastern emigration (1894-1954). During his lifetime, only a single collection of his poems, “In the Dust of Foreign Roads,” was published in 1934. The plot movement in the book appears as the memory narrative, reflecting the dramatic life experience of the author. He finds himself in the very midst of Russian history, at the beginning of the 20th century: participation in the First World War, service in the White Army, fight against the Pan-Mongol movement of Ungern, flight to China, and emigration to America. Of particular intrigue was the last part of the book “Brought on the scaffold. Excerpts from a poem,” with the action taking place during the anti-Spanish revolution in the Netherlands of the 16th century. The study has shown that the dramatic turns of the author’s biography, during his struggle against Ungern, are reflected through the roll call of historical epochs. The analysis involved Volkov’s memoirs dedicated to this period. The image of an inquisitor who burns heretics and the pictures of executions refers to the episodes of sophisticated torture of prisoners initiated by the baron and captured in Volkov’s memoirs. Thus, the work implicitly draws the author’s modernity, the events of the 16th century, into its whirlpool by making it one of its reflections.

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The article discusses the prerequisites for the creation of a neo-rhetorical theory of the Brussels school. The authors proceed from the premise that the doctrine created by Ch. Perelman was not a one-step act, but was the result of a change in the scientific and philosophical paradigm of the first half of the twentieth century. Despite the fact that persuasiveness as the main core of the theory of argumentation was not known to scientists, in their writings they actively promoted ideas related to the role of intuition in learning scientific truths, widely using analogy techniques and metaphors borrowed from natural languages. The main actor in the article is H. Poincaré, a famous physicist, one of the creators of the special theory of relativity, and a popularizer of science, who went down in history of its formation as an active fighter with logocentrism.

The article discusses the popular science theme of the Soviet journal “Technique for Youth” in an ideological aspect. The magazine is one of the significant cultural constants of the Russian popular science periodicals and originates in 1933, goes through the difficult history of the Soviet era, goes through no less difficult periods of the formation of post-Soviet Russian society and is being published steadily at present. For many generations of Soviet youth, the magazine became the first serious school for familiarizing with the engineering world, introduced the latest in scientific and technological progress, taught high school students to dream and see themselves in the world of science and invention. At the same time, the Soviet period in the history of the journal is inextricably linked with its functioning as part of a total ideological discourse in aspects of directed propaganda work with young generations. To reveal the features of the ideological design of popular science topics on the pages of the journal, his issues for 1971 were selected. The beginning of the 1970s in Soviet history is associated with the time of the progressive scientific, technical and institutional development of the USSR, which has not yet passed into the controversial era of stagnation of the 1980s. Almost all articles and materials of the journal of this time are more or less penetrated by historical optimism.