ON THE RELEVANCE OF THE EURASIAN IDEAL OF THE REPRESENTATIVE OF AUTHORITY FOR CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA
The article is devoted to the study and evaluation of the doctrine of Eurasianism about the state and the political elite («ruling stratum») in the context of the current state of Russia and its development prospects. The relevance of the article is determined by the crisis situation of the modern state, what manifests in the etatization of public life and in the decline in the quality of political elites. Interest in the Eurasian doctrine is caused by the fact that overcoming the crisis of the state requires a return to the traditional principles and standards for the formation and evaluation of political elites. The interrelation of the main categories of Eurasianism is determined: symphonic personality, demotia, ideocracy, ruling stratum, leading selection. Evaluation of Eurasianism as a doctrine that raises questions about the ideocratic state, but does not provide answers about the forms and means of its construction, is considered correct by the authors of the article. The conclusion is made about the importance of studying the theoretical heritage of Eurasianism, the need for an objective and correct assessment of both true and erroneous provisions of this doctrine.