POLITICAL RAISON D' TRE OF RUSSIA

Abstract

The article presents interface between ideas justifying Russian polity and efforts to implant those ideas into actual history of the country, particularly during the last century. Contradictory effects of those efforts are acknowledged and paradoxical results acclaimed. Still it also recognized that maturing richness of Russia’s perception alongside the mounting institutional density of its politics propels further prospects for its development.

Keywords

• identity
• development
• institutional set up
• emancipation
• modernization
• geopolitical role
• autocracy
• democracy