Some questions of the semantic content of the concept of "revolution" in the political discourse of Russia at the present stage

Abstract

The concept of revolution is currently one of the most ambiguous in the system of social and humanitarian knowledge. More and more attention is drawn to the problem of a gradual increase in the scope of this concept, when that is used to designate phenomena that, from the point of view of classical approaches, cannot be characterized as a revolution. In the conditions of conceptual uncertainty, there is a need to study the semantic content of the concept of "revolution", put into it by the actors of political discourse, in order to establish its key semantic features. In this paper the socio- and scientific political discourse of modern Russia is studied with the help of discourse analysis in order to identify the main semantic characteristics of the concept of "revolution" in it. Special attention is paid to the correlation of the concepts of "revolution", "color revolution" and "velvet revolution". It is concluded that at the present stage in the political discourse of Russia, the concept of "revolution" has almost completely lost its classical semantic content and has practically become identical to the concept of «color revolution» in its securitized interpretation. At the same time, there are still attempts to separate both concepts in the scientific political discourse. The concept of «velvet revolution» is much less common in the political discourse of Russia, and in semantic terms is the complete opposite of the concept of "color revolution".