Влияние западных политических теорий на процесс формирования партийной системы в России в постсоветский период

Abstract

In the post-Soviet period of its political development, Russia faced an acute shortage of its own theoretical developments of party building and was forced to turn to the experience of Western technologies. These appeals were not always constructive. Often, foreign theories were only beautiful models that had nothing to do with Russian political reality. Not all of these Western borrowings have been useful for the political experience of Russia. Despite the fact that interest in many theories has already faded, their trace in the modern development of domestic political science can still be found today. Many concepts have been modified or rejected already in the course of the development of the political situation itself. The historiographic analysis of this issue indicates a certain selection of theoretical sources that were most in demand by the then political reality. The purpose of this article is to clarify the impact of these Western political theories on the formation of political parties in Russia in the last decade of the twentieth century.