RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONISM: CONFLICTS OF CULTURE AND POLITICS

Abstract

The article is highlighted and describes the archetypal nature of domestic revolutionism, presented in the form of steadily reproducible cultural traditions and stereotypes of thinking and social activity of the Russian people. In this context, the specifics of mass and elite revolutionism, showing historical and modern forms of their manifestation. Of particular importance in the reproduction of revolutionism is given to Imperial and despotic forms of organization of public authority, for centuries served as the main source of formation and actualization of the citizens ‘ subculture. Determined the direction and institutional context of the reform of the political space, contributing to the progressive eradication of mass and elite consciousness of revolutionary sentiment and values.