Guest editor: Marek Tamm
Table of Contents
| 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 | |
| Ilya Kalinin | 284-301 |
| Two approaches to the humanities: Claude Lévi-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 |