ABOUT THE BEGINNING AND ORIGINS OF MODERN RUSSIAN POLITICAL SCIENCE (30 YEARS OF RUSSIAN POLITICAL SCIENCE)
The article deals with controversial issues concerning the origins and origins of modern Russian political science. Based on the comparative analysis of the works of the "patriarchs" of Soviet political science and contemporary authors, two answers to the question of the beginning of modern Russian political science are revealed. The hypothesis of the study in this article is the assumption that both interpretations are one-sided. They do not fully reflect the complex process of formation and development of domestic political science in the second half of the twentieth century. It is shown that one of the answers connects the beginning of the formation of Russian political science with the Khrushchev thaw and the activities of a group of scientists, who later became known as the "founding fathers" or "patriarchs" of Soviet political science. The article notes that such a phenomenon as "Soviet political science" is structurally a set of closely related elements: ideological and scientific. It is shown that the ideologized methodology and apologetic function of Soviet political science do not allow to see in it the origins of modern Russian political science. But Soviet political science contained elements of scientific understanding of reality and in this respect is the relationship of Soviet and modern Russian political science. It is noted that the other answer, linking the birth of modern Russian political science with the collapse of the USSR (late 80 - early 90-ies of XX century), does not take into account the presence of elements of scientific understanding of reality by the Soviet school of political science and therefore does not see the continuity of modern Russian political science with the Soviet school of political science. The article also shows that both representatives of Soviet political science and the modern political science community underestimate the role of dissident freethinkers as one of the sources of modern Russian political science.