The book provides a comprehensive analysis of scientific ideas about parliamentary democracy, considered as a systemic political-legal and socio-cultural phenomenon, representing the basic basis of the paradigm of the modern world order. The genesis and evolution of the institutions of parliamentarism are examined, focusing on the features of the formation and functioning of parliamentary bodies in the Russian Empire, USSR and CIS. A comprehensive analysis of modern technologies of parliamentary activity is carried out, problems and prospects for their evolutionary development in the foreseeable future are highlighted. The book is intended for teachers, researchers, graduate students, students of humanities universities, as well as anyone interested in problematic issues of the history, theory, and practice of parliamentarism. In format a4.pdf publishing layout saved.