Ongoing plebiscite. Genetics of civil society

Neklessa A.I.,

Chairman of the Commission on the social and cultural globalization; member of the Bureau of the Scientific Council “History of World Culture” at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Head of the Laboratory for Geo-economic Analysis, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, neklessa@intelros.ru

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Rubric: Theme of the issue: Rethinking modern social order

For citation:

Neklessa A.I. Ongoing plebiscite. Genetics of civil society. – Polis. Political Studies. 2013. No. 2. P. 24-39. (In Russ.)

Abstract

The author examines various aspects of formation of civil society’s elements in a broad retrospective through the prism of civil culture development, formation of modern state and political nations. Particular attention is paid to transformations of society in late XX – early XXI century, specificity of Russian society and state and their interaction.

Keywords

civil society; civil culture; Modernity; right to rebellion; national state;democracy; political machine; etatism; corporation-state; contract world; late industrialism; soft revolutions; civil disobedience.