History of Political Doctrines: Study Guide

The textbook is devoted to the world history of political teachings. The materials outlined in it are a set of political theories and the views of the most well-known and outstanding thinkers, political and statesmen about the patterns of the historical process of the emergence and development of theoretical knowledge of the state, politics, the essence of the authorities and political regimes, starting with antiquity and ending with the XXI century.
The structure of the benefit is linked to the problem of periodizing the very history of mankind, in respect of which researchers of political thought exist different points of view. Information on scientific concepts and their authors cover the extensive historical period, including the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Reformation Epoch, the new time and modernity, taking into account the diversity of the approaches applied and the characteristics of the history of different civilizations.
A significant place in the book is allocated to cover the political ideas of Kievan Rus, the teachings of the period of creating a single Russian state and Tsarist Russia, the Soviet political ideology and the state of political science in the USSR, the processes of reforming the state device, the transformation of federalism, the formation of democracy and the development of the main directions of policies In modern Russia.

The manual is addressed to scientists, teachers of higher educational institutions, graduate students and students of political scientists, legal, historical and other humanitarian universities and faculties, as well as those who are interested in science on politics