The article discusses the main features of the Russian revolution of 1917 as a reflection of the crisis of the Russian culture. The author believes that the spiritual and cultural causes that led Russia into the revolution of 1917 were unique and purely Russian, and they, in the final analysis, provoked the revolution. The Russian revolution became possible only because the everyday life of people lacked traditional life foundations, as they had been shattered by nihilism. Nihilistic outlook first captured the intelligentsia and then the whole nation. The article substantiates the conclusion that the tragic experience of the Russian revolution of 1917 has shown it is necessary to make all political, social and cultural forces of the country be aware of the lessons of those historic events. And the most important of those lessons is: to cherish national historical memory, to value the spiritual culture of the people, to strengthen the moral foundations of the society without allowing religious schisms and disasters.

This article examines the main directions of the moral inversion of Russian liberalism, understood as a change in the attitude of the leaders of the Russian liberal of the political camp to the problem of linking politics and morality in post-Soviet Russia. The author believes that as a result of the reforms carried out, ideas about the individual criteria of the person’s moral integrity, both in relation to an average citizen and in relation to a representative of the power elite, were violated. Modesty, responsibility for words and actions, concern for the neighbor, did not fit into the liberal order of reforms. The conclusion is substantiated that for a significant part of citizens the idea of lifting restrictions, including moral ones, was actualized from a person striving to achieve personal success in politics and economy.

The article deals with the essential characteristics of modern financial capitalism and suggests the author’s vision of the socio-political consequences of financial “domination”. The logic of the tendencies of financialization traced in the article gives grounds to assert that the way out of the created social and economic impasse lies in the plane of post-capitalistic social reality. The crisis phenomena generated by the financial stage of capitalism development are systemic by nature and can’t be overcome within the framework of the previous model of the world order. The coincidence of development vectors of the two processes that are different in nature: the objective one is globalization and the subjective - financial globalization, actualizes the general risks of transition to a qualitatively more advanced stage of social development.

The article stresses that the political practice of Russian socialism bases both on the theory of Marxism, which is western in its origin, and on the cultural code of Eastern Christianity, deeply rooted in the social psychology of the Russians, especially peasants. Not any outlook and not any ideology functions in ordinary consciousness in its entirety, but reduces to one or two ideas, suitable for practical everyday needs for the “unschooled mind”. In Orthodoxy such a reduced idea is the idea of justice. The development of Russian capitalism, by the turn of the 1890-1900s years, gradually led the mass consciousness to the conclusion that there was radical injustice in the existing social order- and it was radically changed in the process of the social revolution of 1917.

The paper studies conceptual theoretical and methodological approaches to determining the nature of ethnopolitical conflicts in the modern world. The author examines in detail the development of ideas about the nature of ethnopolitical contradictions in the history of political thought. Special attention is paid to the interpretation of the phenomenon of “ethnopolitical conflict” in Western and domestic political science. The paper reveals the structure and content of conflicts on political and ethnic grounds, as well as the dynamics of their flow. The methodological core of this study is: the systemic approach, the comparative and political approaches, the historical method and others. The main conclusions of the study are: the importance of the ethnopolitical factor in the conditions of the progressive development of society. It is noted that the pronounced differentiation on various grounds in social environment has influence and impact upon the development of the conflict situation.

This paper reflects the results of the first applied mass political and sociological research in the Republic of Dagestan on the specificity of electoral behavior in Russia, especially after the elections of deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation held in autumn 2016. The practical importance of the research conducted by the author will allow to study electoral preferences in a single subject of the Russian Federation and supplement the all-Russian picture of electoral preferences, which is important in the run-up to the upcoming presidential elections in 2018.

The paper analyses key characteristics of perceiving politics by the Muslims in different regions of Russia. This study shows that the Muslims’ interest to politics is higher on average compared to the all-Russian index. They consider politics to be a tool of solving important social problems Despite the fact that the Islamic identification is not so important for the voters as the other motifs of political behavior, its role is rising definitely. The article shows that this situation is, on the one hand, due to the fact that Muslims’ reaction to the negative image of Islam in mass media makes them consolidate and become more politized. On the other hand, the search of principles of equitable social order in the Russian transitive society transits to the attempts to make Muslim institutions of self-organization more politized.

The article covers the issues of large social groups’ participation in the Russian revolution of 1917. Besides, the class character of the Revolution, the age and national factor are mentioned, as well as the issue of peasantry participation. The author comes to the conclusion that it is wrong to interpret the Russian revolution of 1917 as a purely class conflict. On the basis of the analysis the author draws the following conclusions: 1. at different stages of the revolution large social groups were involved into active revolutionary actions. 2. Despite there is some similarity between the Bolsheviks’ technologies of capturing the power and the “coloured revolutions”, the author notes certain difference between the phenomena, as in 1917 the demand for the changes (including the radical ones) was supported by the majority of the Russian society and that ensured the encouragement necessary for the Bolsheviks’ victory.

This paper deals with the problem of studying the family in the aspect of subjective perceptions that reflect the realities of man’s relationship to the family and inside the family. The authors justify and empirically illustrate the possibility of exploring a family perspective through the use of metaphors. In the main part of the work the author’s original research evaluation of metaphors of the family is presented. It reveals the meaning and content of positive and negative aspects of family positioning. The results of the study demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of using the metaphorical approach to the study of family problems and characteristics of individual consciousness in the field of family life. Besides, they justify the possibility of using the data obtained within the research in family counseling.

The article analyzes the main scientific approaches that determine the need for and the prospects of including psychological components into the theoretical model of mid-career managers’ activities success. Various working conditions and subject-object evaluation of labor outcomes should also be included. The result of the analysis is the refinement of the concept “the success of mid-level managers”, as well as the improvement of the theoretical model of mid-career managers’ activities success.

The article gives a scientific analysis of the activities of the famous Soviet psychologist Nikolai Dmitrievich Levitov. The main ideas of N.D. Levitov and their reflection in the works of modern scientists are presented. N.D. Levitov’s complex path is outlined starting from the 20s of the XX century. It is depicted against the background of psychological science development which was even more complex. It is shown that N.D. Levitov’s heritage is being buried in oblivion, and is being used without specifying his authorship. The outstanding importance of the theory of mental states created by N.D. Levitov is underlined. The scientific ideas of N.D. Levitov on the problems of personality, vocational fitness and character. N.D. Levitov’s special role in solving problems of labor, and pedagogical labour in particular.

The international and interuniversity Round table discussed the basic problems of modern applied psychology as an interdisciplinary subject of research in pedagogy, psychology, sociology, deviantology, medical and clinical psychology, gerontology, etc. The round table designated the following blocks of discussions: the issues of upbringing, education and professional development of a specialist in modern psychology. In the block of issues dealing with the problems of psychology of education the problems of self-actualization of adolescents, prevention of deviant (dependent) behavior and the problem of developmental psychology - intergenerational interaction in the family were disclosed. The problems of education psychology were revealed through the acquaintance with efficient methods and technologies of mastering a foreign language by children and adults; through the discussion of stimulating cognitive and professional motivation of students; through the disclosure of the essential approach of innovative activity of a teacher at a university. While discussing the problems of professional development of a specialist the following themes were covered: specific features of motivation for choosing military service by women, the problem of resistance to stress of specialists working in psychological support services for cancer patients, psychological characteristics of emotional burnout and personal characteristics of health-care workers, the psychological vectors of professional development of an actor. Domestic and foreign scholars and practitioners took part in the discussion.

The paper analyzes the attitude of foreign poets of the XX-XXI centuries to the October revolution. In the years of Perestroika there is an explicit negation of its image in famous rock-texts by Yuri Shevchuk, Boris Grebenshikov, Alexander Bashlachjov. In 2010s modern poets of the “left” and “right-wing” journals show multidirectional viewpoint on glorifying and rejecting the revolutionary ideals. And yet the motif of intense consideration about the tragic history of Russia becomes central to the perception of the revolutionary past, which is certainly beneficial for the Russian national self-consciousness.

The article is devoted to the description of the specifics of expressing the influencing assessment by verbal and nonverbal means in small-format texts of political-administrative segment of the blogosphere. The author studies the main means of genre forming linguistic means, as well as the language estimation means and the specifics of verbal and visual components combining. On the basis of the analysis the conclusion is made that the texts under study have great pragmatic value in the aspect of strengthening the interaction between the power and the society due to the fact that twitters of the representatives of the executive power can be considered to be the creolized small-format texts. It is important that the texts mentioned have the form of multimedia with nonlinear realization and perform influencing estimation function.

The article is devoted to the views of A.I. Solzhenitsyn on the February Revolution of 1917. His work “Reflections on the February Revolution”, written in 1980-1983, is in the center of the analysis. Besides, the explanation for why it was published in 2007 is also scrutinized. Particular attention is paid to the logic of the development of journalistic thought of the writer. As he stated that the February Revolution was the largest event of the twentieth century not only for Russia, but for the whole world. Solzhenitsyn examined the nature of the February revolution, the role of the liberal circles, and the renunciation of Nicholas II. Other Solzhenitsyn’s journalistic articles, in which the concept of February finds its further deepening, are also considered.