The 2nd issue of the journal "Polylog / Polylogos" for 2020 contains articles on political science, political and social philosophy, philosophy of history. The authors of the journal turned to plots covering different eras, directions of thought and problems of humanitarian and interdisciplinary areas of knowledge. A special section is devoted to young authors - master's students of the State Academic University of the Humanities.

DcS Maria Fedorova in her article analyzes the concept of modernity as an actual state of society in modern philosophy. CSc Vadim Podolsky examines the historical and political aspects of social policy in the United States. Article of CSc Svetlana Ilyinskaya is an overview of the transformation of ideas about civilizational identity in the context of the analysis of the self-identification of Russian society. DcS M.D. Rachmaninova in her article refers to the epistemological aspects of such a relatively poorly studied phenomenon as the Makhnovshchina during the Civil War in Russia. CSc Sergei Chizhkov examines the concept of the relationship between personality and society, set forth by Vladimir Solovyov in "Critique of Abstract Principles" (1880) and "Justification of Good" (1897).

The section of book reviews provides an overview of the novelties of the publishing houses of humanitarian literature, compiled by CSc Veronika Sharova.

Editorial Board

Mikhail Loktionov

Chief Editor

DSc, Professor, Leading Research Fellow IPh RAS

Institute of Philosophy Russian Academy of Sciences Profile

Veronika Sharova

Deputy Editor, managing Editor

PhD, Research Fellow IPh RAS

Institute of Philosophy Russian Academy of Sciences Profile

Aleksandr Asmolov

DSc, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Head of the Department of Psychology of Personality, Faculty of Psychology (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Lomonosov Moscow State University Profile

Marina Bykova

DSc, Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (Carolina State University, Riley City, North. Carolina, USA)

Carolina State University Profile

Alla Glinchikova

DSc, Professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Moscow Pedagogical State University. (MPGU, Moscow, Russian Federation)

MPGU

Natalia Emelyanova

PhD, Associate Professor, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy (SAUTH, Moscow, Russian Federation)

State Academic University for the Humanities Profile

Olga Zhukova

DSc, Professor of School of Philosophy (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation)

National Research University Higher School of Economics Profile

Anatoliy Zub

DSc, Professor, Deputy Dean, School of Public Administration (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Lomonosov Moscow State University Profile

Vladimir Kantor

DSc, Professor of School of Philosophy, Head of International Laboratory for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue(National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation)

National Research University Higher School of Economics Profile

Marina Kiseleva

DSc, Professor, Chief Research Fellow (IPh RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Institute of Philosophy Russian Academy of Sciences Profile

Vladislav Lektorskiy

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, DSc, Professor, Chief Research Fellow (IPh RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation), Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy (SAUTH, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Institute of Philosophy Russian Academy of Sciences Profile

Vladimir Lepskiy

PhD, DSc, Chief Research Fellow (IPh RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Institute of Philosophy Russian Academy of Sciences Profile

Denis Letnyakov

PhD, Senior Research fellow, Deputy Head (IPh RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Institute of Philosophy Russian Academy of Sciences Profile

Vladimir Malakhov

DSc, Director of the Center for Theoretical and Applied Political Science (RANEPA, Moscow, Russian Federation)

The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Profile

Irina Murberg

DSc, Leading Research Fellow (IPh RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Institute of Philosophy Russian Academy of Sciences Profile

Igor Perko

PhD, assistant professor at the University of Maribor (Maribor, Slovenia)

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Antonina Selezneva

DSc, Associate Professor, Deputy Dean, Political Sociology and Psychology Department (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Lomonosov Moscow State University Profile

Margarita Sukhanova

PhD, Deputy Dean, Faculty of Political Science (SAUTH, Moscow, Russia)

State Academic University for the Humanities Profile

Elena Trufanova

DSc, Leading Research Fellow, head of the Department of the Theory of Knowledge (IPh RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Institute of Philosophy Russian Academy of Sciences Profile

Maria Fedorova

DSc, Principal Research Fellow, Head of the Department (IPh RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation), Dean of the Faculty of Political Science (SAUTH, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Institute of Philosophy Russian Academy of Sciences Profile

Aleksandr Shirinjanz

DSc, Professor, Head of Department of History of Social and Political Studies (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Lomonosov Moscow State University Profile

Raul Espejo

DSc, Professor, President of the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics (www.wosc.co) and Director of Syncho Research (www.syncho.com) (Lincoln, United Kingdom)

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