Political and Philosophical Ideas of Socio-Political Development of Russia: Opportunities in Modern Conditions

Abstract

The article draws attention to the risks associated with the loss of national research traditions in political theory. It is shown that non-creative borrowing and imitative reproduction of foreign concepts and theories does not contribute to the scientific rise, especially if the Russian heritage and scientific schools are pushed aside and forgotten. To attract the attention of academic circles to the existing potential of Russian socio-political thought and discuss opportunities for further development, the article analyzes and compares the concepts of “Autocracy of the people”, “Holy Russia”, “Moscow - the Third Rome”, and “Spiritual Vertical”. Their philosophical and political significance for the development of the Russian state in modern conditions is determined. Conclusions are drawn that due to the alienation of citizens, especially young people, from the national intellectual tradition (together with economic and political reasons), emigration moods, spiritual decline, and pessimism are expanding in Russian society. The problem could be a funded study, support and promotion oriented to the spiritual development of the adherents of the concepts of "Holy Russia" and the likes, which have a long history, formed in the domestic tradition, belong to the history of the first and the second Rome have religious and philosophical and political justification provide the basis for social and national consolidation of many peoples of the Russian state.