Pivovarov Yuri

ON RATIO OF RUSSIAN POLITICAL SCIENCE AND RUSSIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

The article considers the state of the Russian Political Science and its ability to comprehend the domestic reality. Departing from the analysis of the Russian political thought, Yu.Pivovarov shows that Political Science in Russia stems from a different root. Its main source is Western Political Science that emerged as a tool of the rational self-cognition of the Western society that is not suitable for describing and studying other types of sociality. Since the “substance” of Political Science is almost absent in Russia, the Russian Political Science is busy with someone else’s “agenda” being absolutely insensitive towards real, truly Russian issues. Pivovarov concludes that the majority of the contemporary Russian political scientists are both the product and the element of the new Russian reality and therefore, they are able to only express and describe it for their own consumption.

DOI: 10.30570/2078-5089-2011-62-3-6-21

Russian Power and Historical Types of its Comprehension

In the past, Russian thought did not restrict itself only to theoretical reflection on the historical being of power but offered political and legal formulas indigenous to it. Moreover, the works by a number of the most perspicacious thinkers contained some forecast creation energy, speaking metaphorically. Further understanding of the ways of the development of the Russian state is impossible without the achievements of the Russian national thought of the pre-revolutionary period.

DOI: 10.30570/2078-5089-2000-18-4-5-37

Pages: 5-37

Succession and Russian Authorities: History and the Present

The problem of legal succession is analysed in the article in historic and legal dimension. The author considers the process of Russia’s getting beyond its historic legal order framework in 1917. The legal order is also being analyses in the context of the nature of Russian Authority. Special attention is given to the issue of the translation of authority. The author considers the succession to be both a historic task and a condition of social concord in Russia.

DOI: 10.30570/2078-5089-1998-7-1-68-80

Pages: 68-80