Egorov, V.G. Regime transformation of the post-Soviet independent states

Abstract: The article presents the author’s point of view on contents and vectors of regime transformation of the new independent states, which differs considerably from a traditional point of view on the perspectives of the post-Soviet political modernization. In spite of the unity of historical destinies of peoples and states in the post-Soviet territory, the Russian political science pays little attention to the comparative analysis of the specific features of the political development of newly independent states. Existing works in this sphere present an exception to a rule. However, the mutual interdependency of the global processes, as well as the special role of matters facilitating or precluding the formation of regional communities, requires the need to fill the gap in the social sciences. The political orders of the post-Soviet independent states have a common feature, which is due to the historic context of their formation. In the opinion of most researchers, studying the newly independent states, one characteristic feature of their political landscape is immaturity of the new forms of political organizations, including national state formations, not having the formal elements of sovereign states.

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