Kanarsh, G. Yu. Democracy and authoritarianism and post-Soviet and contemporary Russia. Part 1

Abstract: Abstract: the article considers a problem of correlation between the democracy and authoritarianism in post-Soviet and contemporary Russian politics. Relying on the researches of Russian political scientists, sociologists, social philosophers, the author has demonstrated that the origins of authoritarianism may be found in the political practice of the middle of 1990th. It is also demonstrated that the far evolution of political regime depended upon a failure of social and economical reforms of 1990th, but at the same time it is now getting its own way because of the deep transformation of the social structure of the Russian society.

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