We have long planned this issue - about the variety of forms and mechanisms for exiting authoritarian-totalitarian regimes. They gave the working title: “Transition Formula.” We discussed for a long time what stories were needed and looked for authors. Meanwhile, the formula definitely didn’t add up. Moreover, over time, reasonable doubts arose: are there universal patterns that describe the “transition”?

From the stories of the afternoon the Pentecost of 1816-1866, the period of the third. 1848-1866 The period is third. 1848-1866 In his circular, to his diplomatic agents, Franzii Lamartin expresses: “Franziya became a republic; The French Republic, in order to exist, does not need to be recognized. It is established by the great people, who has the right to independent existence.

Construction without a plan [1] My work as a special authorized person began with temporary solutions. At first, I was placed at the hotel for Aleksanderplatz, then the Federal Federal Property Department provided me with a furnished apartment.

In the center of the proposed analysis is the problem of the relationship between the public attitude to the Nazi past and the democratization of the West German political culture. Over the years, the company's post -war company has passed to review the foundations of national identity in the light of the consequences of the civilizational gap caused by the Nazi dictatorship.

Thier and his message on December 7th Human, in the hands of which, according to a completely random stitching circumstances, the fate of the French fell, and who at the same time manages only to repeat the classic phrase: “Neither monarchy, nor the republic,” can play the role of either one or another.

The causes, course and results of regime changes have become the subject of close research of social sciences in general and political science in particular, since the 50s of the last century, are still ongoing [1] . Comparing one mode with another, we analyze the change in structural and functional political outlines and at the same time we can use different models [2] .

Do you think the restructuring has already ended or has not yet ended? If you think that the restructuring has ended, then when, in what years this happened? More than 20 years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Gaidar reforms. If we turn to the extremely popular analogy with the outcome of Egyptian slavery - more than half the term conducted by the Jewish people in the desert under the leadership of Moses.

Print Malcolm Maggeridge Oz introduces the reader to excerpts from the book “Chronicle of ruined time” , belonging to the feather of the English journalist Malcolm Maggeridge , one of the largest in the 20th century. Chronologically, this philosophical autobiography covers the period from the beginning of the last century to the first few years after the end of World War II, but the author often makes “sorties” in later periods of his life.

Print Philip Schmitter Reflections on "transitology": earlier and now [1] The concept of “transitology” was not invented by Guillermo O'Donnell, but our names often associate with it, and even reproach us for creating it. When we wrote the monograph “A way out of authoritarian rule. Preliminary considerations about unstable democracies ”(below - Transitions) [2] , there were practically no literature on this issue.

When we hear the word “myth”, we imagine something primarily Greek, or not Greek, but most importantly-ancient. However, the myth is not a property of the ancient world at all, not a product of archaic thinking, which was replaced by philosophy and science in proper turn. Science and philosophy appeared as criticism of the myth, but did not replace it, they now exist in parallel with the myth. The myth is no phase, not the completed stage, it cannot be passed, to pass, to displace it at all.

Print Sergey Ryzhenkov The events of the last two years [1] talk about the beginning of a new process of regime transformation in Russia. And although we can only talk about the very first steps in this direction, appeal to theories and comparative research of transformations of political regimes (TPR) acquires a value that goes beyond purely academic studies.

When Russians are asked to evaluate communism as a system of ideas, they strongly speak out in his favor. Moreover, even young people, as we see, see the predominance of the “bright” side in it almost twice as often than “dark”. As for the older generation, there is an advantage of positive assessments over negative ones. But the proposal to equip Russian society in accordance with the ideas of communism is much cooler: 43 % of respondents would like this, they would not want - 38 %.

Print Paloma Agilar The complicity of the judicial authorities in repressions of authoritarian regimes and the justice of the transition period [1] Why did Argentina and Chiles advanced significantly in search of truth and justice, while in Spain the thousands of sentences issued in the political processes of the Frankist regime in 1936-1975 were not abolished or at least revised?

In political science literature, the Russian political regime, as a rule, is designated as “hybrid”, while the concept of the hybrid regime itself is (at least partially) a generation of a certain disappointment of transitologists. Political practice did not confirm the thesis of transit as a linear process of transition from authoritarianism to consolidated democracy.

Print Tatyana Semina , Dmitry Tolstolutsky Dmitry Tolstolutsky [1] Tatyana Semina [2] Nature. Power. Human. Survival problem [3] But it seems from above - there is a lot below, And here - individual people live. A. Platonov Diary? Memories? Composition? For the first time, we met this document in the school office of history, when the documents of the 20s of the XX century studied in the practical lessons. He struck us right away. Questions grew like a snowball. Is there really an original?