Gorozhanina, T. V. Conciliarity and Democracy: Can Russia Change its Political Culture?

Abstract: The article compares the natural and religious grounds of the two political cultures, - Western democracy and Russian conciliarity. As a result of the analysis of influence of environment on appearance of the first centralized states and comparison of geographical, religious and mentality features of Europe and Russia the author concludes that Russian conciliarity is very different from Western democracy. Consequently, there is a very low chance that Russian political culture can be actually changed from conciliarity into democracy.

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