Эссе о провинции (заметки о дефиците власти в современной России)
Essay About The Province (Notes About the Lack of Power in Modern Russia)

Summary/Abstract: In this article, the author using sketches of Russian culture,tries to understand, how institutions of power can function in theRussian province, and how they can be perceived by the society. Thepower is distributed unevenly, and this has a full effect on its deficit inrelation to provincial political discourse. The Russian example is not anexception.From the author’s point of view, modern practices may have significantcultural grounds, hiding in a special relation to the province,which traditionally accompanied political discourse. The author seesthis attitude in various sketches from the texts of Aleksandr Pushkin,Andrey Platonov, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Bunin and other Russian classics.The author’s interpretation of the problem required an appeal to thetheoretical works of political philosophers, such as Giorgio Agamben,Albert Camus, Niklas Luhmann, Michel Foucault and Max Scheler.The author believes that in the space of the Russian province thereis an objective deficit of institutions of power, which speaks, on the onehand, of a certain disregard for the province, and, on the other hand, testifies to the strength of resistance to local initiatives and legal nihilismthat has become part of the political philosophy of the Russianprovincial.In turn, the provision of a person to himself, affects a fairly criticalattitude toward the political power. A person is not more capableof trusting the authorities and seeking support from them. His beingincreasingly assumes an existential character.The policy of the federal government in modern Russia gives rise toserious gaps between the center and the province, which can forms affectthe specific perception of power itself, and also affects the formation ofanarchic attitudes.

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