Alive Province Publishing House is a project, that aims to create a system of new possibilities for local places development in Russia.
The "Enlivened Province" Publishing House is a project that aims to show examples, tools, theories and success stories of new possibilities for local development in Russia and support knowledge exchange.
We chose the term "Province" intentionally: many people associate backwardness with this word, we think that the endless land is the great source of wellbeing and prosperity in our country, allowing people to flourish in many different ways.
The Publishing House is a part of a bigger project, which includes expert center, consulting, education, information distribution. They have to carry out real work, aiming to build new reality in Russia (or not only). Book publishing is only a part of that work, which supports all the other parts.
The Publishing House is a part of a bigger project, which includes an expert center, consulting, education, information distribution. They have to carry out real work, building a new reality in Russia and beyond. Book publishing is only a part of that work, which supports all the other parts.
In the historic books that we already published we proved that Russia is the source of models that could, combined with modern technologies, lead to rural rejuvenation in our country and worldwide and balance the drain of population to the megacities. Therefore we adress everyone who is interested in stopping and reversing this problematic trend and inventing farms, villages, small and medium towns for the 21st century embedded in flourishing local and regional economies.
We welcome contributions from all sciences, we also seek to carry international experts books on these subjects translated to Russian Language, and we want to see the best and diverse theories and models be tested and proven in reality. This is why our publishing activities will be linked to educational and research activities.
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Main customers:
- people from big cities, aimed on creating alternative way of living (eco and more just)
- big cities inhabitants, aimed on moving to the countryside and small towns
- big cities inhabitants, which are basically interested in small places development (f.e. their native place), while they will stay urban
- active local inhabitants in villages and small towns
- advanced local authorities, deputies, businesses
- cooperatives
- people with leftist views, anarchists, different socialist movements
- academic people, High school teachers, professors, post graduate students, doctoral candidates
Main customers:
- people who are interested in alternative ways of living, more balanced ecologically and socially.
- in particular those big cities inhabitants who think of moving (back) to the countryside and small towns and want this envioronment to work and prosper
- big cities inhabitants who care for small places development (f.e. because they care for their native place), while they will stay urban
- active local inhabitants in villages and small towns
- advanced local authorities, deputies, businesses
- cooperatives
- people who seek to realize certain cultural views not shared by majority, be it leftist views, anarchists, different socialist movements, religious communities, artist communities - and want to do at in a non-confrontative way, proving they have ideas of value and substance. (and need therefore to know how things actually work)
- academic people, high school teachers, professors, post graduate students, doctoral candidates discovering the "new mental territory"
- politicians who have the responsibility to make the right choices for our country and know that we can do much better by not leaving people behind.
Mains channels of distribution
- Our own internet shop “Alive province”
- social networks (we have groups in VK and FB, all together about 25000 people)
- Big internet shops (like Ozon, Blueberries)
- network of bookstores in Moscow, St Petersburg (and hopefully in other big cities)
- out own events (seminars)
- our representatives in regions (do not have yet)
- fairs and other big events (not yet)
- famous museums in big cities or famous places (not yet)
Mains channels of distribution within Russian Federation
- Our own internet shop “Enlivened Province”
- social networks (we have groups in VK and FB, all together about 25000 people)
- Big internet shops (like Ozon, Blueberries)
- network of bookstores in Moscow, St Petersburg (and hopefully in other big cities)
- our own events (seminars)
- our representatives in regions (do not have yet)
- fairs and other big events (not yet)
- famous museums in big cities or famous places (not yet)
We also seek partnerships with likeminded publishing houses abroad for translating and distributing works.
Our Internet shop
Internet shop “Alive province” we create together with few dozens od small Russian regional publishing houses (in order to have broader assortment of products, as at the beginning we can’t have enough books to fill the site)
It also makes us more known, gives a status and ability to create joint (cooperative) publishing projects with other publishing houses and diminish costs. We plan to do it.
We want to create - together with few dozens of small Russian regional publishing houses - a common internet shop, in order to have a broader choice of media, than if we just advertised our own.
It also makes us more known, gives us a status and ability to create joint (cooperative) publishing projects with other publishing houses and diminish costs.
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Publishing House and other directions
Book publishing should be combined with offline work (club, meetings, seminars, forums), which work also as customers attraction and sales.
Expert network (council) is one of the most important blocks of that work. It should have
Russian and international branches.
International network is operated by Global Villages Network (GVN) and I support the work of GVN.
We try to unite interesting and important experts and bring the number of ideas, know-how, concepts of new local (glocal) way of life and local development practice to Russia.
One of the ways of doing it is publishing of books of GVN experts in Russia, which is supported by creating of information stream, events, meetings, seminars, etc.
Russia is a good place to do it, as we have some market here. But we can also promote it later in the West. Then it will be right to have a partner publishing house in Europe (or maybe few).
Our Book publishing should be combined with offline work (club, meetings, seminars, forums), activities that positively promote and augment each other.
An expert network (council) is one of the most important blocks of that work. It should have Russian and international branches.
Internationally we will work with and support the growth of the Global Villages Network (GVN)founded by Franz Nahrada in 1993. The GVN is the most media-oriented and information based global approach to local development.
We try to unite interesting and important experts and bring a big amount of ideas, know-how, concepts of new local (=glocal) ways of life and local development practices to Russia.
One of the ways of doing this is publishing of books of international GVN-affiliated experts in Russia, which is supported by creating of information stream, events, meetings, seminars, etc.
Russia is a good place to do it, as we have some market here. But we can also promote those works later in the West. Then it will be necessary to have a partner publishing house in Europe (or maybe a few).
There could be few ways of cooperation with Global Villages Network (GVN)
One of the ways is attraction of municipalities to GVN sites and social media. We do it, teaching them to promote themselves abroad.
How can we start it?
- Gleb starts his own more active information work in English.
- We carry out seminars for local authorities and activists how to build partnerships and promote themselves. We can retuen to idea of bringing groups of activists from diff. countries to ant municipality in Russia, which is very interested in it. This group comes in order to bring new ideas, rise understanding.
We should also think about broad range of very practical topics for seminars (paid seminars), which can be hold in Russia (we bring an expert to Russia) or in Europe (we arrange group trips to Europe).
What it could be? Something like herbs cultivating as local business or permaculture or f.e. specific experience of a certain place (like Mondragon).
There could be few more ways of cooperation with the Global Villages Network (GVN) <n>
One of the ways is attraction of municipalities to GVN sites and social media. We do it, teaching them to promote themselves abroad.
How will we start it?
- Gleb starts his own more active information work in English. For example by more English language Facebook posts
- We can carry out seminars for local authorities and activists how to build partnerships and promote themselves. We can take up our old idea of bringing groups of activists from diff. countries to a municipality in Russia, which is interested in this. This group comes in order to bring new ideas, raise understanding.
We should also think about broad range of very practical topics for seminars (paid seminars), which can be held in Russia (we bring an expert to Russia) or in Europe (we arrange group trips to Europe).
What it could be? Something like herbs cultivating as local business or permaculture or for example specific experience of a certain local economy, cooperative etc. (like Mondragon).
One of the variants is that we create a popular book like a small town manual or a monography series of small town stories of development. We write books about a town in Austria, Italy or in former Yugoslavia republic or in Csech republic.
It should be interesting to the Mayor of that place, as we might help to attract "learning tourists" from Russia.
And we (I) can also work with arranging tours like that.
For the beginning we need one good and successful book. It could be translation of one of Transition towns stories (Totnes or another).
Or Uzhupis in Lithiania.
Or Steinbach in Austria
It is not everything. Let’s think it over.
One of the variants is that we create a popular book like a small town manual or a monography series of small town stories of development.
We could write books about a town in Austria, Italy or in a former Yugoslavia republic or in Czech republic.
It should be interesting to the mayor of that place, as we might help to attract "learning tourists" from Russia.
And we can also work with arranging tours like that.
For the beginning we need one good and successful book. It could be translation of one of Transition Towns stories (Totnes or another).
Or Uzhupis in Lithiania.
Or Steinbach in Austria
There is far more. Let’s think it over.
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Returning to Alive Province Publishing House.
Here is the list of topics we want to cover.
- Futurology. All aspects of future trends that touch locality
- New village as new realitty
- New way of life
- Organic life
- Technologies of new times as a key factor
- Russian village in that context
- Small towns / Urbanization / Cities and countryside
- Ecovillages as a phenomena
- New economy for new life
- Local economy
- Between state and market / The third way of development
- Real stories and ideas cases of local bussiens
- Cooperatives
- Selfgovernment - / sociocracy
- Communities
- Modern situation with self government in Russia (forms, experience)
- Anarchy
- Old Russian traditions of sociocracy
Practice and technologies
- technologies of work with territories
- Success stories, cases
- Experience from abroad
- Psychology
(many aspects needed for territorial development)
- healthy lifestyle
- family, happiness
- very applied aspects of countryside life (homes, water supply, etc)
Russia and its way
- Alternative history of Russia
- Positive view on Russia from abroad
- Zemstvo
- Russian socialism (not to be confused with communism)
- Kazaks
- Old believers
- Utopias
Different parts of Russia and their traditions
-The Russian North
-Sibiria
-Other regions
Russian village in the past
-Russian village as cultural heritage
-Small towns
-Rural literature and culture
People, whose ideas showed the way
-Significant thinkers
-Russian thinkers
-Tolstoy
Esoterica, mysticism
Books for children
At the time being we have 5 books in work and about 30 as a publishing portfolioю
The Internet shop will appear within 1 month.
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