К общей теории кризиса империи

Abstract

The author claims that the roots of the revolution lie deeper than allowed by the mentality of the Enlightenment. It should be considered in the paradigm of historical cyclicity, which produced especially large-scale and painfully affects to complexly organized imperial systems. As applied in Russia in the 17th – 20th centuries, the systemic crisis, with varying degrees of intensity, went through the following stages or levels: ethical, ideological, political, organizational, social, ochlocratic, recreational. It was a synergistic process, the chaotic course of which, in the final analysis, turns out to be dependent not on ideology and politics, but on the psychology of the masses. Its result was due to the fact that the masses, having exhausted all the possibilities of getting out of a critical situation, turned to historical experience, that they see. In Russia, it is associated mainly with the paternalistic type of worldview.