The article gives the politological analysis of the election results to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the VII convocation, held on 18 September 2016 from the point of view of whether the political parties implemented new political possibilities that were legally given to them before the election. The article may be of interest to professionals involved in the preparation of election campaigns, as well as to the teachers of political sciences at universities, and also to a wide circle of readers interested in the political processes and technologies in the Russian Federation.

The article deals with the importance of the social capital as a component of the socio-cultural context of the development of the Russian society, which determines the basic parameters of the national model of political participation. The incompleteness of the institutionalization process is viewed by the Russians as an absence of order which manifests itself in the limited volume of the social capital based on generalized confidence. As a result there appeared some notable barriers to the model’s functioning which presupposes an autonomous unorthodox political participation in the collective forms, and on the whole barriers to the construction of the political space in the Russian social practices.

The title of the chronicle, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the revolution, reflects its idea: to represent in its basic dates the dynamics of the revolutionary process in Russia of 1917. This thematic publication covers the events of three months - February, March and April. The chronological data is premised with a brief preface containing the author’s most important comments.

This research is based on a teaching program of Wu Yuzhang, a teacher of Communist University of Eastern Toilers. The author proves that Wu Yuzhang stuck to Marxist-Leninist orthodox in his research, yet simultaneously tried to combine the Marxist scheme with the characteristics of Chinese history. However, Wu Yuzhang finally joined the official line under his colleagues’ severe attack, and surrendered his research to the official Stalinist ideology.

The article presents the Bolshevik model of a new social environment that had no similarities with their usual norms, ideals, behavioural stereotypes and cultural standards. In other words, Kazakhstan and the multinational Russian population had to go through proletarian socialization. In our opinion, proletarian socialization is a concept capacious, and it means revolutionary process on formation of a new person with communistic outlook. Accordingly, the replacement of the usual social environment carried out a new proletarian party organization, councils, schools, and the media communications. The techniques and methods used in the process were not flexible.

The article deals with the brief analysis of German-Russian Intergovernmental Relations within the period of 2009-2015. The character, content and specificities of these relations are given in two time dimensions: before the “Ukrainian crisis” and after it (2014-2015). It is stressed that during the first stage, despite some disagreements, both states maintained relations at a rather high level. The “Ukrainian crisis” (of 2014) has become a certain benchmark in German-Russian relations. The crisis, in which the FRG took part, has become a grave threat for Russia. But, taking into consideration a number of rather important circumstances, the government of Germany occasionally had to be a mediator in the aggravating relations between the West and Russia.

The article provides the information on Iranian «soft power» that promotes IRI national interests worldwide. This component of the Iranian foreign policy plays an important role in the promotion of the state's image in the world. There is an analysis of the evolution of the «soft power» of Iran - from the late period of the Pahlavi dynasty (1971-1979) to modern Islamic Republic. Various tools for its implementation are considered - through culture, language, tourism and diaspora. According to the authors’ opinion, the importance of «soft power» issues in Iranian foreign policy strategies will be growing further.

The article discusses the key problems of modern Russian education related to the effects of modernization on the way of universalization and integration into the common European educational space without regard to the traditional pedagogic system. The authors believe it resulted not only in spiritual and moral degradation of an individual and the society, but there appeared a threat to the national security. As a possible alternative the scientists suggest to draw attention to the experience of the zemsky (county) school, created in a crucial period of national history. In the article the example of such educational model of early XX century in central provinces in Russia is presented. In this work the attention is paid to the system of its organization, its goals and approaches to teaching, as well as to the teaching staff providing.

In the given article the general questions of organization and activity of the professional working societies are considered and their classification by types and groups is provided. The terms of educational organizations, the content of regulatory documents (the Charters), the number of members are established and the relationship with the authorities are examined in the study. In addition, the results of the performance of professional working organizations established in the Moscow province of the studied period are analyzed; the reasons for the low popularity and weak influence of these companies on the working environment are identified.

This work attempts to examine the level of protest in the North Caucasus in 1920 through the example of Chechnya. After the establishment of the Soviet power the policy was changing gradually, which could not but affect the moods of the mountain population of the region. The author links its growth to the fact that after the establishment of Soviet authority, it gradually began to change the foundations of the national policy, declared by the Bolsheviks at the beginning of their rise to governance, toward greater centralization of power in the region.

The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of the quantitative composition of the Orthodox religious organizations, as well as to the unregistered religious communities, the clergy of the Eastern and Western Siberia. The study allows the identification of common and peculiar features of development of Orthodoxy in different regions of Siberia. The possibility to create a shared "picture of the Siberian Orthodox" in Soviet time appears. The documents of the State Archive of the Russian Federation, which collected the reports of the commissioners of the Council for religious Affairs under the USSR Council of Ministers on the subjects of the RSFSR, are used. The author tells about different levels of development of Orthodoxy in different regions. Causes folding such a situation are allocated. They are both objective - such as the presence or absence of a diocesan center, and subjective ones -poor attention to remote, peripheral areas from the diocesan bishops, the lack of desire on the part of some of the orthodox clergyman to active missionary work, etc.

The paper attempts to analyze the Soviet satellite cities. The article discusses the concept of urban development in the capital of 50-60s. The author analyzes the reasons for the construction of satellite towns in the Soviet Union, the problem of limiting the number of large Soviet cities. The article discusses the positive aspects of integrated development of the first satellite town of Moscow. The author considers the city of Zelenograd as a unique urban achievement, as a creative success of Soviet city planners.