In their article, where they critically examine interpretations of Russian political culture most widely spread among foreign and Russian researchers, the authors concentrate in its 2nd part on problems of property forms, on particular features of the economic system that has formed in Russia and of the influence of the economic factor on Russian politics. Special attention is given to analyzing the role of the authoritarian tendency in Russian political culture, to the continuity between the Russian and the Soviet political cultures, to methodology of studying the evolution of the political culture of Russia.