Russian Statehood as a Didactic Unit of the Educational and Methodological Complex “Foundations of the Russian Statehoodˮ

Abstract

The article was written as part of a public discussion about the introduction of a new discipline “Fundamentals of Russian Statehoodˮ into professional educational programs of higher education. The subject of consideration is the Russian statehood as a system-forming didactic unit for constructing the content of educational material. The concept of “Russian statehoodˮ indicates a broad subject area of public relations, including both the system of relations of public power (the state at various stages of its development), and the supersystem of relations of public power with non-state forms of organizing the public life of ethnic groups (territorial community), – the supersystem, which forms the “contextˮ of development and sustainable functioning of the state. The general methodological basis of the findings is a systematic approach, the key theoretical and methodological concept is social (public) attitude.