Russian and Soviet in the Civilizational Space of Russia as the Basis of National-Imperial Synergy

Abstract

The predominance of the principle of historical unity over the historical gap within the framework of methodological schemes of genetic information and genetic breeding in the understanding of national history assumes the assessment of the Soviet era as the key link in understanding historical integrity, and the concepts of empire and the national state as a context. The article proves the validity of the defi nition of both monarchical and Soviet Russia as an «inverse empire» with an instrumental and pragmatic attitude of the government towards the state-forming people. Artifi cial contrasting of imperial and national aspect in the framework of the stable policy of suppressing the national awareness by the state, contributes to the fi nal destruction of Russian cultural identity, while the successive development of Russia is possible on the basis of the synthesis of imperial and national forms of statehood