The article, based on extensive historical material and the widest geopolitical array, shows those components that are present in any betrayal. It is proved that betrayal is the reverse side of responsibility, which manifests itself at all levels, from personal to global. The study of the problem of betrayal is aimed at a deeper understanding of how to show responsibility to the people, the state and to oneself in difficult historical periods.

Key words: geopolitics, history, international relations, responsibility, betrayal, power.

 

This article describes the political component of the New Year, how these holidays were disable and enable in the Soviet Union, which reflect the history of the Christmas tree ornamentation in our country and in the world. Shows why the New Year attracts attention to the figure of the national leader. Highlights the sources of charitable activities in this period of the year.

Key words: New Year, Christmas, traditions, political rituals, charity.

 

Oswald Spengler belonged to the generation that was formed in the shadow of the outwardly impressive successes of the "Wilhelmian era", in the shadow of the triumphs of academic German science, and at the same time — in contrast to this — it early experienced the impact of the direction that had just begun to enter into a wide circulation, called "philosophy of life". In his philosophy of culture, Spengler sharply criticized the Eurocentric view of history as a universal linear progress. Instead, he proposed a pluralistic and cyclical model, according to which independent local cultures whose life period is a cycle similar to living organisms. The creative potential of such a culture is embodied by its creative elite. The author of the article, interpreting the heritage of Spengler, formulates an answer to the question of how it is possible to integrate the national elite into the framework of a conservative project. The author offers his vision of how to combine creativity (vitality, vital impulse) with conservative and stable forms of cultural and social life. 

Key words: culture, philosophy of life, elite, conservatism, Victorianism, Spengler.

 

In this article, a theoretical and discursive approach to the concept of international terrorism is made. Firstly, he put forward the main theoretical postulates of the critical and constructivist approaches in international relations to the study of international terrorism as a discursive social construct. Secondly, he described the power relations – three reasons - that shape the international system and how they determine the formation of the essence of the international community. Finally, the development of standardized global discourses on international terrorism was analyzed. They were connected with the dynamics of power, which makes up the international sphere. It has been argued that historically, political violence that challenged these causes was discursively constructed as "international terrorism". This process was aimed at depoliticizing the challenges of this violence to the hegemony, universality and legitimacy of the international community. 

Key words: discourse, international terrorism, securitization, state, globalism, civilization, reason.

 

Totalitarianism is a political regime characterized by the absolute control of the state over the life of society and the individual. It is based on an ideology that penetrates into all spheres of life, and on the violent suppression of any manifestations of insubordination or independence. The term totalitarianism appeared in the twenties of the last century, after the famous events of 2017 in Russia. The concept of totalitarianism today is one of the most controversial in modern science, has a multi-complex character and features common to all its types. The article examines the concept of totalitarianism and highlights its main features.

Key words: political regime, ideology, Nazism, socialism, socio-political system, totalitarian regime.

 Chebodaeva M.P.

The article contains an overview of objects of ancient art from the Khakass-Minusinsk basin – petroglyphs and clips for harness brushes or needlers and the bronze finial of the Tagar leader associated with the image of the duck-swan in fine and decorative art. Archaeological, ethnographic, folklore and mythological studies of scientists were used in the publication. The image of a duck or a swan in the fine and decorative arts of the Khakass-Minusinsk basin was associated with the image of the goddess Umai (Ymai) - the goddess of fertility and childbirth in Khakass mythology.

Key words: Tagar art, art of the Yenisei Kyrgyz, image of a swan duck, artistic metalworking, Khakass-Minusinsk basin.

Agamirov N.I., Candidate of Political Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Advocacy and Notaries, full member of the Russian Academy of Social Sciences.

Biryukov S.V., Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor of the Department of Social Anthropology and Intercultural Communications of the Siberian Institute of Management - RANEPA (of The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Novosibirsk), Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of Russia of the East China Pedagogical University (Shanghai, China), Professor of the Department of Political Science of TSU (Tomsk), Professor of the Department of History of KemSMU (Kemerovo State Medical University).

Boltenkova L.F., Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor of The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

Chebodaeva M.P., PhD in Art History, Research Fellow, Khakass Research Institute of Language, Literature and History, AIS member (Abakan).

Ryabova E.L., Doctor of Political Sciences, Candidate of Sociological Sciences¸ Professor, Editor-in-Chief of the International Publishing Center "Ethnosocium".

Shuplenkov N.O., Associate Professor of the Department of history, law and social Sciences of the Stavropol state pedagogical Institute.

Shuplenkov O.V., Associate Professor of the Department of history, law and social Sciences of the Stavropol state pedagogical Institute.

Ternovaya L.O., Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor. Moscow Automobile and Highway State Technical University.