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One of the significant events in the political life of Soviet Russia in the autumn of 1919 was a trial of the Red commander F. K. Mironov. It took place in the uyezd town of Balashov of Saratov gubernia. The author of the paper sets a task of considering this event the way it was reflected on the pages of the local press. In the course of the conducted analysis, it is found that a negative image with the population was purposefully being formed who, for the most part, treated him mercifully.

Describes ways in which political psychology can be incorporated into undergraduate course curricula. The challenges of teaching political psychology to undergraduate students are discussed, and possibilities for the content and structure of undergraduate courses in political psychology are examined in the context of active learning. Suggestions for the development of an undergraduate major in political psychology are offered. (Original abstract - amended)

Taking Kemerovo Region as an example, the article describes the existing model of institutional structure of interaction between authorities and business in the Russian economy. It shows that the current model of their relationships has inherited the attributes of the Soviet-era economic institutions. It also reveals reasons of economy's deformalization. The authors point out that the "grey" zone of interaction between authorities and business is the result of the rules' deformalization process, a set of institutions, which regulate the "additional financing of regions" by business funds. The article also describes reasons and main signs of rules' deformalization in interaction between authorities and business at the regional and municipal levels as well as interests and positions of the interested parties in this process.

The world's forests and forestry sector are facing unprecedented biological, political, social, and climatic challenges. The development of appropriate, novel forest management and restoration approaches that adequately consider uncertainty and adaptability are hampered by a continuing focus on production of a few goods or objectives, strong control of forest structure and composition, and most importantly the absence of a global scientific framework and long-term vision. Ecosystem-based approaches represent a step in the right direction, but are limited in their ability to deal with the rapid pace of social, climatic, and environmental changes. We argue here that viewing forest ecosystems as complex adaptive system provides a better alternative for both production- and conservation-oriented forests and forestry. We propose a set of broad principles and changes to increase the adaptive capacity of forests in the face of future uncertainties. These span from expanding the sustained-yield, single-good paradigm to developing policy incentives and interventions that promote self-organization and integrated social-ecological adaptation. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Current ecological thinking emphasizes that systems are complex, dynamic, and unpredictable across space and time. What is the diversity in interpretation of these ideas among today's ecologists, and what does this mean for environmental management? This