Comparative analysis of the election programs of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the 2021 elections and N.M.Kharitonov in the 2024 elections

The article provides a comparative analysis of the election program of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation for the elections to the State Duma of the VIII convocation in 2021 and the election program of the candidate for President of the Russian Federation, representative of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation N. M. Kharitonov for the elections of 2024. The methodological basis of the study is comparative analysis, historical method, event analysis, case method, quantitative content-analysis. The analysis of political programs was carried out according to the following provisions: reform of the public administration system; actions to modernize the Russian economy; steps to improve social policy in the country; policy in the field of adoption of normative legal acts; a set of measures in the field of world politics and international relations. As the analysis showed, both in the election program of N. M. Kharitonov and in the program of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, a significant place is given to such values as socialism, patriotism, collectivism, planned economy, social equality, internationalism, anti-globalism, national sovereignty. All programs pay special attention to issues of social justice, support for low-income segments of the population, upholding national interests, nationalization of means of production, and the creation of a large public sector in the economy. At the same time, neither the program of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation nor the program of N. M. Kharitonov mentions class struggle, the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the proletarian revolution, the abolition of private property, and other provisions of classical Marxism, which makes it possible to classify the Communist Party not as a communist, but as a reformist social democratic party.

state, elections, political parties, the electorate, the candidate, election program, election campaign, Representative office, comparative analysis, Parliament