Рассматриваются обстоятельства массового голода в Поволжье, а также отношение власти и представителей различных социальных и политических групп к оказанию помощи голодающему населению. Представлен анализ их действий. The circumstances of mass famine in the Volga Region and the attitudes of both the authorities and various social and political groups toward the aid for the hungry people and their practical activities are analyzed.

This article analyzes the assessment of status and approaches the study of contemporary regional political elites influencing the
decision of the administrative, political and administrative decisions in transitional societies, suggestions to improve the process of
modernizing elites, discussed a number of problematic transit of elitology: to create an effective talent pool at all levels of political
and administration, the openness of elites at all levels, the organization full control over the government and management structures,
compliance with the law.
Objective: To study the perceptions about the activities of the federal and regional political elites, the study characteristics of the
formation of the Russian federal and regional elites, ways to improve the state personnel policy, the interaction of the elites in the
domestic socio-political space, to improve the transparency of government.
Methodology: used historical and legal, formal-legal, structural and functional and analytical methods.
Results: Materials of sociological research on «Modern regional elites», which involved respondents from the Republic of Adygea,
Dagestan, Bashkortostan, Komi, the Chechen Republic, the Altai, Krasnodar, Stavropol, Kaliningrad, Kurgan, Rostov, Ryazan, and
Chelyabinsk Chita regions. The basic assessment of the status and prospects of development of modern Russian elitology problems
recruiting Russian federal and regional political elites, the interaction of the elites in the domestic socio-political space. Reflects
perceptions about the regional political elites considered as an indicator that reflects the status of the internal security of the
regions. The analysis of the criteria of elitism, determine a set of personal and professional qualities of the persons recruited into
the elite. A convergence of opinions and experts and respondents of the public that the elite must meet four main criteria: professionalism,
education, high morality and patriotism. In this case, the respondents took the professionalism much larger proportion
than the experts. The experience of the modernization of the American political elite, ensured the American withdrawal from the
protracted socio-economic crisis in the first half of the last century and experience reformatting the national elite of the Republic
of Korea, which was able to bring the country out of a deep crisis in the postwar period.
Discussion: Discussions of modern elitology, quoted in the article, were part of the First All-Russian elitological Congress of Russia:
Current State and Prospects of Development», held in Rostov-on-Don, 7-8 October 2013. There were suggested that the main
problems lied in the absence of Russian «new» elite, ready to take on new roles and manage «in a new way.» Reasoned thesis that in
societies in transition, what continues to be a Russian, generally one can not speak of the elite. There are only certain conditions for
its occurrence, the starting material or protoelite that does not fulfill its basic function, but only seeks to remain in power. In other
words, the country has the political class, but there is no elite, because its content does not match the form. Noted a discrepancy
between elitism, understood in the traditional sense of the concept, and the possession of real political power, which ultimately
determines the low competence of a significant number of defendants who have fallen into the elite, bringing them into the elite
layer of corruption mechanisms of activity, lack of motives for self-improvement. It was stated that in today’s Russia in individuals
who do not have sufficient funds, social support and family relationships with superiors, the chance to break into the elite is almost
zero. As a result, the authorities are in the «average» of the second and third echelons of the bureaucratic elite, from which creativity
is pointless to wait.
Novelty / originality / value: the article is original, has scientific value, since it is one of the first attempts to objectively assess the
real state of the federal and regional political elites, to analyze the level of development of the domestic building materials of First
All-Russian elitological Congress.
Alexandr Ponedelkov, Sergey Vorontsov Evaluation of the Population to the Elites as an Indicator that Reflects the State of the External and Internal Security of the State // The Russian Academic Journal, Vol. 28, Issue 2, 2014, pp. 0-0

This article analyzes the assessment of status and approaches the study of contemporary regional political elites influencing the decision of the administrative, political and administrative decisions in transitional societies, suggestions to improve the process of modernizing elites, discussed a number of problematic transit of elitology: to create an effective talent pool at all levels of political and administration, the openness of elites at all levels, the organization full control over the government and management structures, compliance with the law. Objective: To study the perceptions about the activities of the federal and regional political elites, the study characteristics of the formation of the Russian federal and regional elites, ways to improve the state personnel policy, the interaction of the elites in the domestic socio-political space, to improve the transparency of government. Methodology: used historical and legal, formal-legal, structural and functional and analytical methods. Results: Materials of sociological research on «Modern regional elites», which involved respondents from the Republic of Adygea, Dagestan, Bashkortostan, Komi, the Chechen Republic, the Altai, Krasnodar, Stavropol, Kaliningrad, Kurgan, Rostov, Ryazan, and Chelyabinsk Chita regions. The basic assessment of the status and prospects of development of modern Russian elitology problems recruiting Russian federal and regional political elites, the interaction of the elites in the domestic socio-political space. Reflects perceptions about the regional political elites considered as an indicator that reflects the status of the internal security of the regions. The analysis of the criteria of elitism, determine a set of personal and professional qualities of the persons recruited into the elite. A convergence of opinions and experts and respondents of the public that the elite must meet four main criteria: professionalism, education, high morality and patriotism. In this case, the respondents took the professionalism much larger proportion than the experts. The experience of the modernization of the American political elite, ensured the American withdrawal from the protracted socio-economic crisis in the first half of the last century and experience reformatting the national elite of the Republic of Korea, which was able to bring the country out of a deep crisis in the postwar period. Discussion: Discussions of modern elitology, quoted in the article, were part of the First All-Russian elitological Congress of Russia: Current State and Prospects of Development», held in Rostov-on-Don, 7-8 October 2013. There were suggested that the main problems lied in the absence of Russian «new» elite, ready to take on new roles and manage «in a new way.» Reasoned thesis that in societies in transition, what continues to be a Russian, generally one can not speak of the elite. There are only certain conditions for its occurrence, the starting material or protoelite that does not fulfill its basic function, but only seeks to remain in power. In other words, the country has the political class, but there is no elite, because its content does not match the form. Noted a discrepancy between elitism, understood in the traditional sense of the concept, and the possession of real political power, which ultimately determines the low competence of a significant number of defendants who have fallen into the elite, bringing them into the elite layer of corruption mechanisms of activity, lack of motives for self-improvement. It was stated that in today’s Russia in individuals who do not have sufficient funds, social support and family relationships with superiors, the chance to break into the elite is almost zero. As a result, the authorities are in the «average» of the second and third echelons of the bureaucratic elite, from which creativity is pointless to wait. Novelty / originality / value: the article is original, has scientific value, since it is one of the first attempts to objectively assess the real state of the federal and regional political elites, to analyze the level of development of the domestic building materials of First All-Russian elitological Congress.

The sessions of the theoretical seminar "The Peasant Question in the national and world history" (of the Centre for Agrarian Studies of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and of the Scientific Project "People and Power: the History of Russia and its Falsifications") is dedicated to the interdisciplinary scientific analysis of various aspects of problem of the interaction of Peasantry and Power. «The Peasant Question» was considered as an essential problem of the Russian studies, in which concentrated main conflicts of Russian history.
Brodovskaya L.N. Krest'yanskiy vopros v otechestvennoy i mirovoy istorii [Peasant Problem in National and World History] // Vlast' [Authority]. 2013. No. 4. P. 189–191 //http://www.isras.ru/files/File/Vlast/2013/04/Brodovskaya.pdf

The sessions of the theoretical seminar "Peasant Question in the national and world history" (of the Centre for Agrarian Studies of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and of the Scientific Project "People and Power: the History of Russia and its Falsifications") is dedicated to the interdisciplinary scientific analysis of various aspects of problem of the interaction of Peasantry and Power. "Peasant Question" was considered as an essential problem of the Russian studies, in which concentrated main conflicts of Russian history.
Brodovskaya L.N. Krest'yanovedenie v issledovatel'skom pole [Peasant Studies in Exploratory Field] //Rodina [Homeland]. 2013. No.4. P.35–37 //http://users4496447.socionet.ru/files/Brod.pdf

The scientific project “People and Power: History of Russia and Its Falsifications” is devoted to the interdisciplinary scientific analysis of various aspects of the problem of the interaction of power and people as two main agents in Russian historical development. P. Marchenya is the editor and S. Razin is the coordinator of the project. The theoretical seminar “Peasant Problem in National and World History” is a part of the scientific project “People and Power: History of Russia and Its Falsifications”. The peasant problem is considered as the fundamental problem of the Russian studies, in which all main conflicts of Russian history are concentrated. Original interpretations of the agrarian conflict provide new arguments for understanding of the reforms’ reasons and results in Russian transitional society. The international round table discussion “Peasantry and Power in History of Russia in XX Century” is devoted to the interdisciplinary scientific analysis of various aspects of the problem of the interaction of peasantry and power as the most important agents in Russian historical development in the XX-th century. The international round table discussions “Stalinism and Peasantry” (I and II) are devoted to the interdisciplinary scientific analysis of various aspects of this topic as the important problem in Russian historical development in the XX-th century.
Shevelkov A.I. Krest'janskie shtudii nauchnogo proekta “Narod i vlast': Istorija Rossii i ee fal'sifikacii” [Peasant Studies of Scientific Project “People and Power: History of Russia and Its Falsifications”] // Nauchnyj dialog [Scientific Dialogue] 2013. No. 12. P. 169–181 //http://www.docme.ru/doc/225703/peasantstudies.pdf

В статье обобщены итоги Международного круглого стола «Народ и Власть в российской Смуте». Этот Круглый стол был посвящен междисциплинарному научному анализу различных аспектов проблемы взаимодействия власти и народа как двух главных агентов исторического развития России в ситуациях глобальных социальных катаклизмов, революций и смут как периодически повторяющихся системных кризисов российского государства и общества. Totals of the International Roundtable Discussions "People and Power in Russian Strife" are generalized in this article. The Roundtable is dedicated to the interdisciplinary scientific analysis of various aspects of problem of the interaction of Power and People as two main agents to the historical development of Russia in the situations of global social cataclysms, revolutions and strafes as periodically repetitive system crises of the Russian state and society.
// Вестник архивиста.com. – 2010. – 28 июля [Электронный ресурс]. – Режим доступа: http://www.arhivemagazine.com/conferences/35-qpeople-and-power-in-russian-strifeqthe-past-and-the

The authors consider working-class and rural correspondents’ movement in soviet Russia as a political control institution, analyze the speeches of the soviet state officials of the first decade of its existence and the decisions of party and state bodies which became the theoretical basis of this political control institution and show that victims among working-class and rural correspondents seemed quite acceptable and even necessary from communist ideologists’ point of view for the sake of general victory in socialism construction. В статье (на англ. яз.) движение рабочих и сельских корреспондентов в советской России рассматривается как институт политического контроля. Авторы анализируют выступления руководителей советского государства первого десятилетия его существования, решения партийных и государственных органов, ставшие теоретической основой данного института политического контроля. Показано, что с точки зрения коммунистических идеологов, жертвы среди рабселькоров выглядели вполне допустимыми и даже необходимыми ради общей победы в деле строительства социализма.
Вопросы современной науки и практики. Университет им. В.И. Вернадского. 2012. №2. С.247-253.(на англ. яз.)

Окончание: [6-я часть] Международный круглый стол посвящен междисциплинарному научному анализу различных аспектов проблемы взаимодействия власти и народа как двух главных агентов исторического развития России в ситуациях глобальных социальных катаклизмов, революций и смут как периодически повторяющихся системных кризисов российского государства и общества. * * * The International Roundtable Discussions is dedicated to the interdisciplinary scientific analysis of various aspects of problem of the interaction of Power and People as two main agents to the historical development of Russia in the situations of global social cataclysms, revolutions and strifes as periodically repetitive system crises of the Russian state and society.
// Власть.– 2010. – № 9. – С. 16–21.

Продолжение: [5-я часть] Международный круглый стол посвящен междисциплинарному научному анализу различных аспектов проблемы взаимодействия власти и народа как двух главных агентов исторического развития России в ситуациях глобальных социальных катаклизмов, революций и смут как периодически повторяющихся системных кризисов российского государства и общества. * * * The International Roundtable Discussions is dedicated to the interdisciplinary scientific analysis of various aspects of problem of the interaction of Power and People as two main agents to the historical development of Russia in the situations of global social cataclysms, revolutions and strifes as periodically repetitive system crises of the Russian state and society.
// Власть.– 2010. – № 8. – С. 9–13.