Abstract

The modern Russian state is parasitic. But its dominant minorities still talk about a certain “special role” of Russia in European and world history, although many unforeseen and negative consequences of the ideology of the “special way” have already been established. For more than a hundred years, there have been five versions of the domestic history in Russia – statist, liberal and Western, nationalist, civilizational, postcolonial. Each of them cannot be refuted based on the study of historical sources. So, the truth of all is about the same, and each has the right to exist. However, an updated version of the textbook “state school” has been introduced into the practice of school education, in which the history of Russia is viewed as an uncontested process of transformation of the Moscow Principality into the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Thereby, the government consciously narrows the intellectual and political horizons of the younger generations and the entire population. In addition, under the influence of color revolutions the government began to cultivate a negative assessment of revolutions, although its representatives themselves admit that “the export of color revolutions is our Kremlin propaganda invention.” Over the past thirty years, Russia has been promoting a counter-revolutionary ideology, which manifests itself in foreign policy and domestic political rhetoric, and (according to officials) corresponds to the state interests of the country. In fact, the country and the world are offered an archaic version of political domination. Therefore, it is necessary to master and develop new concepts in which a different version of state interests is proposed. The article presents a reconstruction of one of the fragments of M. Foucault's political theory.

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