The Specifics of the Economic Tradition of Russian Society: from Byzantine Origins to Postindustrialism and Postmodernism

Abstract

Introduction. In the history of Russian public thought, the issues of human economic activity have been considered from time immemorial through the prism of ethics of justice. Many things have been borrowed from the practice of Byzantine religious morality of economic taxonomism. In the Byzantine patristic paradigm, economy-house-building was analyzed as a field for spiritual growth in the field of Orthodox obedience. Wealth and success were not condemned, but evaluated as a challenge to the test. At the same time, from John Chrysostom to the thinkers of Moscow Russia, the theme of economic activity was presented as serving the highest social ideals of spiritual service. In the imperial period, the problems of economic life were analyzed from the standpoint of service to the state from S. N. Bulgakov to P. B. Struve. The Soviet model of state regulation turned out to be unique and did not reproduce much the previous experience of Rus – Russia in terms of the complexity of the national economy. Material and Methods. An integrative approach combined with historical-methodological and philosophical-historical analysis is considered as a theoretical and methodological research strategy. The solution of research tasks was provided by a complex of complementary theoretical (analysis of scientific, historical literature, journalistic research on the studied problem, comparative analysis of texts, comparison, generalization) and empirical (study and generalization of normative legal documents in the concepts of caesarepapism and secularism) methods. Results. The considered model of postmodernism in terms of its understanding in the Russian economic tradition and the specifics of the national economic structure in the realities of Russian history testifies to the secondary, borrowed nature of postmodern concepts. Discussion and Conclusion. The expected effect of the actual understanding of the processes can be a properly constructed model of state-public relations, which can appear only with a balanced factor of diverse interests of actors of modern state-economic policy of Russia.