Shift toward the information society and urgent tasks of social sciences and education

The aim of the article is to analyze an impact of the fourth industrial revolution and (hereafter - the STR-4) on Russian society as well as on the institutions of science and education. The author main lay down features of the STR-4 as the new mode of production and organization of social life and defines a place of Russia in a current disposition of global geopolitical coordinates. He also analyzes the key issues of Russia's transition toward the information society and formulate the urgent issues of restructuring of social sciences and education and the risks and threats of growing geopolitical pressure on Russian society. Russia is now entering into a certain transition period burdened with the international and domestic conflicts. Therefore, civil society and its organizations should participate of in this process.