The collection of articles by Aderikhin Sergey Vladimirovich, a teacher at the University of Almaty, is the result of his 35 years of scientific and pedagogical activity. This year also marks the 20th anniversary of his defense of his doctoral thesis at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan. The collection is conventionally divided into two sections. The first includes works of philosophical plan, written in different years, which have social and historical-philosophical character. The second section contains works on historical topics and includes texts devoted to the theme of the Second World War, as well as current problems of the history of Kazakhstan.