How to understand politics: the main ideologies - course 3900 rubles. from Level One, training 6 lectures of 2 hours, Date: November 29, 2023.

Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA), lecturer and participant in many conferences around the world, candidate of sociological sciences. Winner of Erasmus Mundus grants, lecturer at conferences in Hungary, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Czech Republic, Rwanda, Argentina, Japan.

How to navigate ideologies 
- Let’s look at how and when ideology arises, and why in this particular period of history.
- Let's find out why there are so many varieties of ideologies - moderate and radical - and how not to get confused in them.
- Let’s determine where the left flank is in politics, where the right flank is and how to find your own position.

Liberalism: what should we do with freedom?
- Let's find out which philosophers laid the foundations of liberal thought.
- We will learn how the development of technology and the introduction of innovation are related to the spread of liberal ideas.
- Let’s analyze the current concepts of our time - “the end of history”, “color revolutions”, “cultural appropriation”.
- Let's understand how liberalism helps in the fight against various forms of discrimination and in the development of the ideas of feminism.

Conservatism: who stands for traditional values 
- Let's understand how a conservative revolution is possible.
- We will learn how political culture is formed from political experience.
- Let’s look at when the conservative turn took place in modern Russia and where it is leading us.
- Let's consider what religious fundamentalism, traditionalism and Eurasianism are.

Fascism: how dictatorships are born
- Let’s look at what historical myth-making is and how these myths work.
- We will learn how ideology and aesthetics are connected using the examples of futurist paintings, totalitarian architecture and films by Leni Riefenstahl.
- Let’s understand the similarities and differences between fascism, Nazism and white supremacism.

Socialism: Ideologies with Revolutionary Potential
- Let’s find out what is meant by social justice and what kind of society should be built within its framework.
- Let’s figure out what the connection between socialism and utopia is.
- Let us understand how the ideological approaches of Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, and Mao Zedong differ.
- We will see how social democracy and Eurocommunism are born.

Anarchism: how is a society without a state possible?
- Let's discuss how to organize non-state life;
- Let’s discuss whether everything needs to be socialized or whether the values ​​of individual individuals must be strictly observed.
- Let’s look at how anarcho-communism and anarcho-capitalism are possible at the same time.
- Let's find out what happens when you combine anarchism with environmental or feminist ideas.