Religious Drama and the Polemics of Conversion in Madrid

16th- and 17th- century Spanish theatre became a vehicle through which to explore the politics and polemics of conversion in a multicultural empire that presented itself as the champion of Catholic orthodoxy. As the chapter suggests, the appeal of many of these works was not their didactic nature, but rather their playful recreation of the fundamental tensions that surrounded the idea of religious and social conversion in early modern Spain.

Digital Transformations of Socio-economic Development: a Thorny Path to a New Quality Information Society

The subject of the research is the implementation of the state digitization policy aiming at acceleration of socialeconomic development, at creating informational society and export-oriented sector in the country. The aim of the work is to assess the condition and the primary lines of development of digital transformations directed at ensuring structural economic and social conversion, at building competitive environment, developing high-tech services, business processes optimization basing on providing information system resources, information infrastructure and informationcommunicative technologies functioning and developing. The author provides rationalization for the necessity of making use of the principles of systemic approach to the implementation of programs and projects for digitization as a major factor to increase the state and municipal administration efficiency, and of the transition to a new quality economic growth. The author also devotes much attention to analysis of digitization development problems that impede achieving the aims of the May 2018 Decree of the President of RF and to the ways to overcome them. It is concluded that it is important to develop and implement the National Program “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation (2019–2024)” as a legally relevant document. The author suggests forming within the Program Federal and Regional projects that will accomplish the purposes of social-economic development on the basis of digital transformations at the levels of Federal Districts, Subjects of the Russian Federation and Municipal formations.