―Brains Returned‖: New Subjects of the Modernization of Russian Science

Abstract

The article is based on the study which was recognized to be the best at the competition of student works on sociology conducted by VCIOM in 2010-2011.

The article encompasses the problems of organization of scientific work by scholars who got their PhD in foreign universities and returned to Russia to go on their research. The study is based on the data of the research “Return of the Brains” devoted to the readaptation of Russian scientists in the scientific community after they took their PhD abroad; the study was conducted by the Department of General Sociology of the Novosibirsk State University in 2010. The analysis of the transcripts of the interviews allowed studying the experience of reintegration into the scientific community and organization of the activity as one of the possible ways of modernization of Russian science.