Экономическая безопасность и миграционные процессы в полиэтничном регионе РФ

The object of our research — the Republic of Kalmykia — is notable for its ethno-cultural and ethno-religious characteristics. This factor has to be reflected in the scientific analysis for the evaluation of economic security as a result of integrative processes. Representatives of about one hundred ethnic groups and three world religions (Buddhism, Christianity and Islam) peacefully coexist and successfully interact in the region. The republic is developing under the influence of globalizing world community. One of its features is active migration: moving of people out of the republic and people coming from neighboring regions and also from near and far abroad. The article gives the results of 2019 poll that define the perception of migrant workers by the hosting community.

A Blueprint for Inclusion: Talcott Parsons, the Societal Community and the Future of Universalistic Solidarities

In the last decades of his life, Talcott Parsons was often indicted as conservative. More recently, his analyses of contemporary society have been perceived as obsolete. In the present paper, I argue that both these accounts are wrong. Parsons’s biographical and intellectual profile is clearly – and rather consistently – that of a New Deal liberal. His “ate” works, moreover, articulate an original view of the integrative processes in modern societies that is still both theoretically compelling and politically relevant. Parsons’s view of modernity has made possible the development of a sophisticated theory of societal pluralism, able to deal analytically with the astonishing variety of structural strains (and resources) arising from an increasingly diverse – in racial, religious, ethnic, sexual and moral terms - membership in contemporary societies. His sociological enthusiasm for inclusion has never been blind to the likelihood of backlashes and the strength of discontent such inclusion may bring. His work provides thus some important directions in the current storm.

Provincial Administration in Siberia in the Context of M. M. Speransky's Reform

The research featured the reasons behind the development of an optimal management model in Siberian provinces, which slowed down the integrative processes of the official imperial policy. Governor-General of Siberia M. M. Speransky intended to eliminate the legal nihilism and arbitrariness of Siberian bureaucracy. His ideas provided the basis for the so-called Institution for the Management of Siberian Provinces – a document that structured the administration of Siberian provinces in the first half of the XIX century. The document regulated all types of management and record keeping at the level of provinces and governorates. The research revealed the features of provincial administration, control, supervision, and subordination. The author analyzes the powers of Governors-General and Civil Governors as representatives of the Supreme power in provincial administrations. The article outlines the positive and negative characteristics of the transformation of the regional management model. The authors defined a contradiction between the legal provisions and the legal reality that developed after the implementation of the Institution for the Management of Siberian Provinces, which was due to both personnel inconsistencies and the discrete nature of the administrative policy of the autocracy in Siberia.