MODERN HISTORY OF RUSSIA: DEJA VU. POLEMICAL NOTES
The key problem of the paper is the relationship between the Soviet and post-soviet stages in the development of Russia in XX century. Modern post-soviet Russia keeps to follow, to the more or less degree, the archetypes of the Soviet civilization: mythologism, individual freedom restrictions, total control over social life, servility of some of the intelligentsia, utopianism of social programs and isolation of the ruling elite (both political and business) from the society.