The article deals with the biography of Chrysanth (Shchetkovsky) — the head of the Russian Theological Mission in Korea in 1899–1904 — before he was sent to Seoul. The purpose of the work is to demonstrate the peculiarities of the formation of the Russian Orthodox missionary in the conditions of deepening problems faced by Russia at the final stage of its existence, and increasing confrontation between the great powers in East Asia. The novelty of the study is determined by the use of global microhistory methodology to analyze the biographical material, which allows us to consider the private life of a person as part of the global context and, at the same time, to assess the significance of the fate of an individual in the world historical space. Chrysanth’s turn to missionary activity was dictated, on the one hand, by pragmatic reasons connected with the death of his wife and the actual impossibility to remarry, which predetermined the impossibility to fully engage in parish work, as well as by the obvious predisposition of the future head of the Ecclesiastical Mission in Seoul to educational work. At the Kazan Theological Academy a thorough religious studies training was combined with a strong school of missionary and oriental studies. Predetermined the formation of Chrysanth as an “empire builder” and prepared him to work as an agent of Russian influence and missionary of the Orthodox faith on the Korean peninsula.

The study of the February Revolution of 1917 over the last century has attracted the close attention of scientists. At various time stages, the research issues have undergone changes, the vector of their relevance has beem noticeably shifting from one aspect to another. One of the most important areas of modern historical research is the study of socio-psychological factors that influenced the emergence and development of the February political crisis. The purpose of this article is to study the role and mechanisms of influence of these factors in revolutionary events. Based on a significant amount of source data and the use of systemic and factor analysis, the methodology of using communication channels for destabilizing political relations is revealed. An attempt is made to reveal the degree of awareness of the mass induced psychosis in the emergence and development of revolutionary processes by the scientific community of that time. The result of the conducted research is the conclusion about the inability of the public authorities of that period to cope with the destructive influence of the socio-psychological aspects of the revolutionary events.

Conceptualization of management is a qualitatively new phenomenon in the history of Russian management thought. Its beginning is associated with the attempts of several statesmen of the last quarter of the 18th century to form a system of views about the goals, objectives, principles and methods of public administration in Russia. The most significant texts of this kind include the “Order” of Paul I and the note of A.A. Bezborodko “On the needs of the Russian Empire.” The purpose of this article is to identify the conceptual elements of management theory that are contained in these texts. For this purpose, common features were established in the two approaches to the formation of the concept of public administration, as well as the differences between them. To solve these problems, methods of text conceptualization are used, combined with semantic analysis at the first stage of the study and comparative analysis at the final stage. The first result of the analysis was the identification of basic commonalities in these two approaches. The common feature was goal-setting, the universal principle of the “triumph” of laws and part of the instrumental principles of management: autocracy and the separation of classes. The second result was the identification of important differences in the understanding of instrumental principles, as well as in what management mechanisms were supposed to be used within the framework of the two emerging concepts. Paul's concept did not provide for clearly defined decision-making procedures and relied on a mechanism of bureaucratic control over the population. Bezborodko proposed developing a mechanism for public participation.

The article is devoted to the substantiation of the integration paradigm for understanding the motivational process of personnel and to iden- tifying the possibilities of its scientific, theoretical and applied application. It analyzes existing scientific approaches to motivating organizational personnel, showing their methodological limitations and inconsistency with the needs of modern digital society in a holistic, systemic representation of the motivational process, which becomes possible on the basis of the proposed new, integration paradigm of motivation based on the use of activity-based and systemic ap- proaches. System-activity methodology allows us to consider organizational motivation as an integral process of determining the behavior of employees in their practical, individual and collective, managerial and executive, constructive and destructive activities. In the integration paradigm, the fundamental catego- ries of the concept of motivating personnel behavior are rethought, as close as possible to reality, and various, including spontaneous, factors of its determina- tion are taken into account in scientific research and practical work. Attention is focused on the need for collective development, based on the imperatives of the integration paradigm, of a general model of the motivational process, represent- ing various determinants of individual and collective organizational behavior of people in their holistic interaction. Such a model, embodied in appropriate computer programs, could serve as a scientific and applied basis for managing organizational motivation, using which one can take motivational work to a new, higher level that meets the requirements and capabilities of the digital society.

The publication provides an overview of the 20th International Scientific Conference “Public Administration in New Geopolitical and Geo- Economic Conditions”, held annually at the Faculty of Public Administration of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. During the conference, new trends in the science and practice of public administration, challenges of the modern world economy, problems and prospects of digital transformation of public administration, problems of regional and municipal management, features of staffing the public administration system, prospects for strategic planning, chal- lenges and prospects of Eurasian integration, the role of BRICS countries on the path to establishing a new world order, issues of anti-crisis management of the public and commercial sectors, modern capabilities for managing social systems and personnel management in the face of the challenges of new times. The economic, political, legal aspects of the functioning of public authority, national issues, historical processes, social transformations, issues of sustainable development of the state, crisis phenomena at the macro-, meso- and micro levels, problems of sustainable business development in the context of modern global processes, new personnel technologies of domestic companies.