Author Tumanova Anastasiya The topic of the research Publications The state and civil society in the conditions of adaptation of the political and legal system of Russia to the World War I”. Tumanova A.S. Voluntary Associations in Russia during World War I (1914 – February 1917). Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2014. Tumanova A. S. The Public and the Organization of Aid to Refugees During World War I / // Russian Studies in History. 2012. Vol. 51. No. 3. P. 81-107. Tumanova A.S. A jubile in absentia: from the history of conflict and collaboration between the Free economic Society and authorities during the World War I // Rossiyskaia Istoriia. 2014. No. 5. P. 164-184. Description The research project implemented by A.S. Tumanova and N. S. Nizhnik is the first multi-centre study of civil society institutionalization during World War I, that initiated a nationwide crisis and decline of Imperial Russia. The project deals with the relationship between the state and civil society during wartime, reveals the capacity of these significant institutes of the political system of society for adaptation to the nationwide crisis (i.e. mobilization, militarization, cooperation, complementarity) when political and legal systems were being switched to war-footing and a military state and mobilized society with adequate legal and institutional environment were being formed. A wide range of regulatory legal acts on legal status of voluntary organizations, organization of public meetings and conventions, etc. has been collected and analysed.