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The article is devoted to the discovery of prioritized methodological dominant in understanding the issues of the political crisis in the historical and political context. A significant proportion of researchers analyze this definition through the prism of the paradigm of stability in the explication of the concept of «political crisis». It determines the explication of the political crisis in the context of the conceptions of «decay», «destruction», etc., which confronts the negative perception of crisis processes priori and the desire to avoid / ignore them. At the same time, a number of researchers focus on the constructive nature of political crises, believing that the crisis can become a source of qualitatively new political relations. This approach, in the context of the paradigm of change, is becoming today the dominant element in political science. The affirmative attitude to the idea of change shifts the emphasis in understanding the political crisis from the categories of disintegration and destruction to the direction of identifying the constructive potential of crisis phenomena. Thus, in today's political discourse, the paradigm of change, not the paradigm of stability, makes the necessity of shifting the methodological priorities in the conceptualization of the concept of «political crisis» becomes a priority in the comprehension of political phenomena.