Siushkin A.E. To the discussion on the prospects of development of the civil society in Russia

Abstract: This article is dedicated to the aspects of establishment of the civil society in Russia in the context of correlation with the classic Western model. The author notes that the Russian civil society pertains to the category, in which the scientific objectiveness is yet to be reached. This work presents the examples, according to which, the differences between the empirical tendencies observed in Russia and the traditional theory of civil society, force the researchers to draw radical conclusions about the absence of civil institutes in our country. This point of view is considered inappropriate by the author, thus a special attention is given to the unique aspects of the functioning of the Russian civil society, its genesis and established structure. The author emphasizes that the main peculiarities of the Russian civil society are statism and rejection by the majority of the population traditional liberal democratic values.  Therefore, the author forecasts the potential difficulties of the process of inclusion of institutions of the society in question into the actively developing transnational civil structures, the ideological platform of which become the values of neoliberal and libertarian nature.

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