The article raises the relevant problem of the popularity of social democratic values in Russia and the difficulties of their ontologization in the modern political process. The modernization project of Russian statehood needs further theoretical development of the social-democratic idea in relation to Russian conditions. The axiological proximity of the social-democratic ideology to the needs of Russian society is, however, possible with regard to the pluralism of the argumentation of the basic values-freedom, social justice, equality, democracy, solidarity. The axiological pluralism makes Russian specificity acceptable in interpreting the values of social-democracy taking into account the peculiarities of the Russian historical path and the spiritual state of society. The "third way" for modern Russia is real in implementing the transformation of Russian statehood on the basis of the values of democratic socialism (social justice, equality, freedom, solidarity) and the concrete political, historical and cultural dimension of the nature of modern power.

The article presents an analysis of several aspects of the method of measurement of the mental national legal system. Exploring them, the authors argue for the importance of its heuristic for identifying the specifics of the Russian state and legal world, especially the key stages of its formation, the development of the most important political and legal institutions, and others.

The article identifies and analyzes the most important area of the organization “Strength through Joy” and its contribution to the support of the Hitler regime by industrial workers in Germany. Created by the Nazis under the auspices of the German Labor Front, which replaced the traditional trade unions, this organization made one of the main emphasis on the mass cultivation of tourism on favorable terms in the ranks of the working community. Having become one of the most important areas of social policy in the Third Reich, the tourism activities of the “Force through Joy” served as one of the effective means of legitimizing Nazi power in the eyes of that part of German society that initially took a hostile position towards them.

This article takes a look at various aspects of the national legal and political mindset: discreetly-structural, methodological, cultural, religious, functional, etc. The authors not only distinguish the nature and characteristics of domestic legal (wider politico-legal) mentality, identify its main functions, show the place and significance in the Russian public-legal, but to refract the main theoretical developments through the prism of the little studied in modern jurisprudence, old political and legal ideas, spiritual component which turns out to be extremely interesting and revealing in many ways to explore such a topical issue at the moment, as the legal mindset , political mentality, legal consciousness, legal culture in transition period of development of the state and law, still continuing in Russia early 21st.