Russian Fractals in Indigenous Artifacts

This book is the first comprehensive work on Russian Fractals in indigenous artifacts. While existing works focus on universal phenomena, such as liquid crystal or finance, none explore the intersection between Fractals and Russia. 'Russian Fractals in Indigenous Artifacts' therefore investigates how indigenous Russian cultures have a wonderful Fractal heritage that was originally tied to socially just and ecologically sustainable social practices, including those of indigenous northern groups such as the Yakut. Fractal designs originally allowed unalienated value, both human and nonhuman, to be visible, thereby enabling just and sustainable living. This book also examines how the tsarist elite encouraged the creation of unique creative masterpieces, developing and strengthening traditional crafts and art of indigenous people—hence, Fabergé, or imperial architecture.
Today, the challenge for contemporary Russia is to reestablish the relationship between the social and ecological sustainability of indigenous cultures and practices, for which we can now provide modeling and analysis. Lay attempts at this have only limited success, as they have based the attempts on a purely religious basis, which recognizes the ecological aspects but often succumbs to authoritarian nationalism. However, the freely accession of indigenous peoples to Russia for the sake of national liberation has had a positive effect on enriching them with spirituality and creativity by Fractal artifacts through friendly exchanges with one another. In 'Russian Fractals in Indigenous Artifacts,' Bangura and Zhigun express why there is a need for a forward-thinking Fractal renaissance in Russia, bringing together contemporary computational and scientific analyses with these ecologically and socially sustainable traditions.

Acknowledgments
List of Tables
List of Figures
Chapter 1 Defining Fractal
Chapter 2 Introduction to Fractal Mathematics
Chapter 3 Fractal Heritage of Indigenous Russian Cultures
Chapter 4 Fractal Designs of Unalienated Labor Value
Chapter 5 Fractals of Alienated Labor Value
Chapter 6 Onion Domes
Chapter 7 Peter Carl Fabergé’s Jeweled Eggs
Chapter 8 Kokoshnik Pattern
Chapter 9 Nesting Dolls
Chapter 10 Surrealist Art
Chapter 11 Kazimir Malevich’s Arkhitektoniki
Chapter 12 Paper Architecture
Chapter 13 Andrei Belyi and Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Neo-Baroque or High Modernism Works
Chapter 14 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn’s Krokhotky
Chapter 15 Folk Songs
Chapter 16 Tatiana Plakhova’s Music Portraits
Chapter 17 Alexei Stanchinsky’s Euphonious Fractals 363Chapter 18 The Politics of Russian Fractals
Chapter 19 Lay Attempts
Chapter 20 Professional Attempts
Chapter 21 New Directions for Russian Fractals
Postscript
Bibliography
Index

Abdul Karim Bangura is Researcher-In-Residence of Abrahamic Connections and Islamic Peace Studies at American University’s Center for Global Peace and Director of The African Institution, both in Washington, DC, USA. He holds five PhDs in Political Science, Development Economics, Linguistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics. He is the innovator of more than a dozen theories and research methodologies, author of 98 books, and editor and co-editor of eight other books. He has authored 710 scholarly articles, and has received more than 50 prestigious scholarly and community service awards.

Leonid A. Zhigun is Professor of the Department of State and Municipal Administration at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics in Moscow, Russia and Professor of the Department of Psychology and Human Capital Development at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia. He holds a Doctor of Science in Economics degree. A prolific scholar, he has produced many cutting-edge scientific works. His areas of specialization and research interest include economic behavior, electronic public services, modern economic development, research methodologies, labor activity, and economics, state and municipal administration. He has authored 170 scholarly articles, and he is also the recipient of many scholarly and other awards.

alienated labor value, arkhitektoiniki, euphonious fractals, folk songs, fractal complexity, fractal potential, Gustav Fabergé’s jeweled eggs, Kokoshnik pattern, krokhotky, music portraits, nesting dolls, neo-baroque or high modernism, onion domes, paper architecture, protofractals, Russian cultures, surrealist art, unalienated labor value