Department of the History of Socio-Political Studies

The purpose of the research "History of Russian spiritual, political and conservative Thought" is to study the patterns of transformation of the structure of knowledge about politics in Russia, analyze the formation of the problem field of Russian political science, study the most significant theoretical and methodological approaches for modern political science in the historical context of their formation and evolution. Russian Russian Spiritual, Political and Conservative Thought research results form a theoretical and methodological basis for teaching a number of basic disciplines of the University educational standard in political science - "The History of socio-political teachings of Russia", "Russian socio-political thought of the late XIX — first half of the XX centuries."

Political textual criticism is a new, intensively developing direction in political science. It is an applied political science discipline that studies the techniques of information retrieval and processing, text analysis and the creation of new socio-political texts. This area has great practical relevance due to the shortage of training programs for applied specialists who have both fundamental knowledge in the field of political science and other social sciences, as well as specific skills of analytical and textual work that are in demand in the system of state and socio-political institutions. Textual studies as an activity presupposes in its professionalism an organic synthesis of three components: mastery of analytical methods, knowledge of the subject area and a certain type of personality.

Today, in the context of various anti—Russian sanctions by foreign countries, the project to study the origins and meaning of Russophobia is becoming more relevant than ever - both scientific, socio-cultural, and political. Russophobia — dislike, hatred of Russia, Russians, their ethno-cultural, religious and national—state identity - has been an essential, if not decisive, element of the foreign policy strategy and domestic political propaganda of a number of foreign countries for several centuries. Russophobia is constantly diversifying, covering new countries and regions and is actively spreading in the modern world. The project is interdisciplinary in nature, combining various methodological principles of political science, philosophical, historical and sociological analysis. The aim of the project is to reconstruct historical events, social factors and political ideas that constitute the origins of the phenomenon of Russophobia and formed the main directions of its evolution; to identify the main directions of continuity of the Russophobic policy of foreign states of the modern era with its modern trends; to analyze the place and role of Russophobic stereotypes in public consciousness and ideological conflicts in the modern world.