The article contains a historiographical review on the problems of evolution of the public mood in Russia during the First World War (August 1914 - March 1918). The article examines the series of documentary publications and research papers where the analysis of public opinion and attitudes, transformation of worldview ideals and values of social and political groups in the society during one of the crucial periods of Russian history. The analysis of the sources shows that in the First World War the population showed some instability in the mood and their frequent change. The most significant components of the worldview of the population (such as patriotic position and the basis of the state ideology) underwent certain transformation during the war years. The beginning of the First World War occurred in a period of spiritual uprise and national unity. However, after a certain time, the patriotic sentiments came to naught.

The article covers the problem of the way the timeframe of the Russian Civil War is reflected in the educational historical literature. A variety of views of the problem has been identified. With the help of textbooks and educational books related to the subject “The History of Russia” and issued within the last five years, the existing views on the starting point and the definition of the precise ending date of the Civil War in Russia have been identified and displayed. The article also contains inconsistencies in conveying the essence of the Civil War in Russia and arguments in favor of the view of the Civil War in Russia as a Russian phenomenon of 1917-1922. The article reveals the reason of a wide range of opinions on the Civil War timeframe in educational historical literature, including proposals made to help the students study this historical phenomenon.

The article is devoted to the works of the post-Soviet historians (mainly Nizhny Novgorod) on the activities of political parties in Nizhny Novgorod province until February 1917. The study highlights main achievements of Socialist Revolutionaries and Cadets’ functioning in Nizhny Novgorod region. Ways of further studying political parties in the region in the pre-revolutionary period are designated. It is proposed to focus on the study of the activities of the mensheviks and small parties.

The article examines some of the specific features that god Seth was given in the Late period of the ancient egyptian history. The related world outlook and ideological transformation of the egyptian society in the 1st millennium BC is also described. During this period the image of Seth was demonized and undergone the negative transformation.

The article covers the English approach to “privatizing” functions of the state during the colonial expansion to the remote regions (armed forces maintenance, imposition and collection of taxes, social regulation). The Bengali ventures of the East India Company (EIC) are analyzed in the main part of the research. Due to the hostile environment, the private capital was forced to rely on its own security structures. While the business was acquiring excessive governmental authority, the ability to assess future profitability was disrupted. The merchants had transformed themselves into a violent institute for avaricious plundering of the enslaved people and aggressive territorial acquisitions. The author comes to the conclusion that the large-scale intervention of private interests into the sphere of state affairs was detrimental. Consequently, the EIC had developed the conflict of interests in both India and Great Britain which resulted in uprisings, nationalization of EIC’s property, and corporate dissolution.

The article deals with the role of Great Britain in elaborating the plans for creating a military and political association in Europe and the implementation of these plans during the Cold War between the West and the East. The article is based on historical publications, documentary sources and some archival information. It is emphasized that the British authorities, maneuvering between the "Atlantic" and "European" versions of this association, based not only on their will to ensure their own security and the security of their political and ideological partners. The British ruling circles, hiding behind the slogan of communist and Soviet threats, also pursued the goal of eliminating communist influence in Europe, causing military and political damage on the USSR and its allies. In general, the conclusion is drawn that the actions of the United Kingdom and some other leading states in forming a self-functioning military-political association of the western European countries cannot be called successful; The United States created NATO.

The subject of the article is a brief overview of the main directions of foreign policy of the conservative offices of Stephen Harper in Canada in 2006-2015. The above mentioned research is based on the review of the domestic and foreign publications on the subject. In this study the authors come to the conclusion that Canadian foreign policy reflects Canada's commitment to the Anglo-Saxon Unity and military-strategic cooperation in the Framework of the NATO alliance in particular. The authors finalize that the Canadian foreign policy is a multifaceted complex phenomenon, which includes deep North American integration.

For a long time in historiography the French Emperor Napoleon was introduced as a destroyer of the Russian people. The Russian Orthodox consciousness considered him to be an Antichrist. But was Napoleon really the person described or was he just labelled by the politicized views of domestic historians? This article discusses the problem of the state of the Moscow Orphanage in September - October 1812. The key idea of the study is to describe the feat of I. A. Tutolmin, as well as the mercy of the French Emperor shown to the pupils of this institution.

In this article the author made an attempt to show the influence of the State Council of the Russian Empire on the reform of the education system in the early nineteenth century. The reform mentioned is noteworthy as it can be considered one of the first fundamental educational reforms in Russia in the early 19th century. The author dwells in detail on the analysis of the main decisions of the State Council for Education. The issue of reforming the Ministry of Public Education is highlighted separately. The issue of determining the departmental membership of public education organizations and an attempt to determine the origin of the foundations of inclusive education in Russia is given in this article in dynamics.

The article is devoted to the study of the gendarme staff officers’ role in improvement of technical aspect of private gold mining in Siberia in the middle of the 19th century. The author addresses gendarme documentation for finding out this role. The main sources for writing the article are archival materials, the majority of which is for the first time introduced for scientific use. The author has come to the conclusion that the gendarme staff officers were interested in technical progress of the gold mining process. Besides, the presented research has demonstrated the mechanism of the gendarme department interaction with the executive power both central and local.

The purpose of this article is to review and analyze the degree of involvement and forms of F.E.Kaplan’s participation in the attempt on V.I.Lenin in a number of contexts, and above all in the context of the attitude to terror in the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that, as a member of the PSR, F.E.Kaplan, from the spring of 1918, appealed to the prominent leaders of the PSR with the proposal to commit an attempt on Lenin, but making sure that it was impossible to obtain permission for a party act (with the right to declare the act committed on behalf of the party and call herself a member of the party while being interrogated), committed an individual act (with withdrawal from the party and on her own behalf and under her responsibility), to which she received permission from a member of the Central Committee of the PSR and a member of the Moscow Bureau of the Central Committee of the PSR, D.D. Donskoy, who entrusted G.I.Semenov to assist her (and Semenov used this fact in order to go beyond the permitted), and that it was Kaplan who shot at Lenin. The official version that the attempt was committed with the sanction of PSR Central Committee by “Central combat flying unit” headed by G.I.Semenov is not true.

The article analyses the reorganization and abolition of the Cheka in 1921-1922. The question of the causes of these events remains relevant for modern historiography. On the basis of documents from the archive of the President of the Russian Federation, the state archive of the Russian Federation and the Russian state archive of socio-political history considered external and internal factors that influenced this reform. The periodization presented by the authors also includes the time before the reorganization and abolition of the Cheka. The analysis of the events of the late 1918 - early 1919, as well as the decision-making by the country's leadership allows to understand the true causes of the reform, as well as the role of L. B. Kamenev and F. E. Dzerzhinsky in this process.

This article examines the activities of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (which directly supervised the organization during the period between world congresses) in the years of its formation (1919-1920). It is concluded that the activities of the Executive Committee of the Communist International have been under the strict control of the Russian Communist Party from the very outset, initially expressing the interests of the Bolshevik party with the formal role of foreign delegations that do not have the ability to influence key political decisions.

In this paper an attempt is made to consider the evolution process of Soviet national policy in the second half of the 1920s and 1930s. After the strengthening of the Soviet power on the territory of Chechnya the Soviet leadership carried out a large-scale disarmament of people and increased the pressure on sharia courts. The actions of the soviet governance led to disaffection among the locals which resulted in insurrections there. The leaders of the insurrections became former members of Chechen political nomenclature. The author connects the change in national policy with the increasing authority of the Soviet self-government towards firm centralization.

The annual price reduction played the key role in the "Stalin" economic model. The article makes an attempt to examine it from the point of view of political, socio-economic and socio-psychological effect, relying on the materials of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History. In the conditions of the post-war disruption and economic sanctions against the USSR associated with the unfolding "cold war", the regular price reduction, which became the "annual national holiday" for Soviet citizens, had such a profound emotional impact that it is still kept in people's memory. Despite the negative evaluation of this phenomenon in modern historiography, it needs to be studied objectively and without bias.

The article examines the period of the mid 50-ies, when the reform of of industry and construction management was being prepared. Тhe author analyzes the reasons for the cancellation of the sectoral management system and transition to the territorial one. The shortcomings of the super-centralized economy are shown.The factual data about large economic losses in this regard are provided. The study analyzes the contradictions in the economy that were not timely resolved in the preceding period.

Nowadays the Islamic radicalism has become the factor which destbilizes the political situation in the world. The article studies the theological basis, as well as ideological and basic values, which form the basis of the Islamic radicalism and are meant for spreading its influence in many countries. The analysis of the internal and external reasons and conditions for creating favourable ground for developing the religious extremism takes into consideration the contradictions of “the catching up modernization”, demographic disproportions,. All those traits are characteristic for the majority of the countries in the Middle East and are skillfully used by the fundamentalists as a basis for extremist ideology. The Islamic fundamentalism, the essence of this religious-political phenomenon, is scrutinized. The reasons of its origination, the principles and goals of its existence are given, as well as the ideological concept of terrorism as the ideology of the ISIS. The interrelation of teology and the practice of political Islam is shown.

The article explores attempts to form new mechanisms for cooperation between Russia and China on counter-terrorism activities in recent years. The military exercises "Cooperation" is taken as an example of it. They still remain out of attention of the researchers who study SCO or the security problems in Central Asia. Together with the continuous deepening of the Russian-Chinese relations and the overall strategic cooperation and partnership Moscow and Beijing are actively looking for new ways of antiterrorist cooperation. The interaction between the security agencies of the two countries is constantly increasing.

The article is devoted to the problems of studying the theory of revolution and concepts of one of the leading researchers - the American political scientist Jack Goldstone. The author investigates Jack Goldstone's approach to defining revolutions, and the concept of 4 generations of researchers who studiedthe theory of revolution offered by the American political scientist. His theory has become the most popular nowadays and aquired a lot of followers among the researchers interested in revealingthe reasons of revolutions. The article bases on such common logic methods as analysis, induction and deduction. Besides, the historical method was used, as well as the comparative analysis which is based on the comparison of homogeneous political events and phenomena in different countries.

The article examines the imperial models of national and state construction. Their comparative analysis is carried out on the example of national and colonial empires. Common and specific characteristics have been identified, among them the desire for universality, hegemonism, the domination of one (imperial) nation, the realization of a conscious policy on exploitation of dependent territories and the assimilation of their populations, with a gradual transition to the attempts to integrate local elites and indirect methods of management. The authors come to the conclusion that each of the presented models had a rather pronounced nationalistic component, and at different spatial scales had an accented territorial and ethnic core. Besides, they had a specific conceptual and ideological justification.

Election campaigns for the election of deputies of the State Duma from 1993 to 2016 are considered. The results of parliamentary elections, electoral behavior are analyzed. The dynamics of electoral absenteeism is traced. The changes in the electoral legislation aimed at finding the most effective electoral formula for the election of parliamentarians of the lower house of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation are investigated and analyzed. Based on the results of the study proposals are made aimed at improving the methods for electing parliamentarians.