Российская государственность в сравнительной перспективе: русская традиция и западная модель государственного устройства
Russian Statehood in a Comparative Perspective: the Russian Tradition and the Western Model of State-Building

Summary/Abstract: For many centuries Russia has been viewed, by Russians and foreigner alike, as something basically different from the norms and standards of the West. Since the October Revolution it has become a widespread conviction that Russia is developing along lines fundamentally different from the broad State and societal patterns of what is usually called the Western world. For many observers, Russia appeared to be a State and a society whose basic principles were totally alien to all Western concepts, and the only country of geographical Europe that owed virtually nothing to the common cultural and spiritual heritage of a “Western” system of State and social relationships. But the “sheer model” of the imported Western statehood (and not only the Byzantine and Czarist heritage) is still an obstacle to this possible and different socio-political evolution which began in the long Russian history.

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