Political-philosophical Analysis of Power in Russian Political Thought of the Second Half of XIX - First Third of XX Centuries

Abstract

The paper does research of political-philosophical analysis of the problem of power in Russian public thought of the second half XIX - the first third XX centuries. The analysis of the problem of power in this period was realized in channel of three directions: conservatism, liberalism and radicalism. Conservatism considers monarchy as the most acceptable form of power for Russia, liberalism - parliamentary republic, radicalism - peoples’ dictatorship. The relation to democracy of the first and third direction was negative, but the second direction had positive relation to democracy.