POLIS (Political Studies) 2017, No 04 Topic: Politics and Education 7 Presenting This Issue THEME OF THE ISSUE: POLITICS AND EDUCATION 9 V.A. Gutorov. Politics and Education: Historical Tradition and Modern Transformations 30 V.A. Achkasov. Transitology – Scientific Theory or Ideological Construct? 38 S.G. Eremeev. Education in the Modern Political Agenda POLITICAL THEORY 44 V.G. Fedotova. Distinctions of Political Cultures and the International Conflicts 55 G.V. Pushkareva. Cognitive Mechanisms of Political Reality Construction 71 O.N. Yanitsky. Humanitarian Catastrophe ORBIS TERRARUM 85 A.I. Neklessa. Apertures to the Future: the Culture of Complicacy and of Self-Organization 111 V.S. Malakhov. Immigrants as Social Agents: Allochtones and Autochtones 126 N.V. Zagladin. The New World and Old Paradigms of Its Cognition RUSSIA TODAY 136 E.B. Shestopal. Quarter of a Century of Russian Political Reforms From a Psychological Point of View 151 E.D. Dagbaev. Regions and New Eastern Policy of Russia 158 Y.A. Zular, D.V. Kozlov, S.F. Shmidt. Political Processes in Siberian Regions VERSION 165 A.G. Savoysky. USA and Russia: Historical Injustice from the Times of Tocqueville REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT 173 I.S. Semenenko. Evolutionary Cycles and Problems of Forecasting Political Changes 179 V.Ya. Potapov. National and International Security: Political and Military Aspects 185 Yu.V. Popkov. On Archaization in Social Transformations 191 Information for Our Authors