DYIRKOVA, L.A., SYSOEVA L. S. IDENTIFICAION OF RUSSIA’S WAY IN THE POST-SOVIET AREA

Abstract: Understanding of Russia’s way continues to be an issue now as it already was a hundred years ago. Having refused from the communistic values and Soviet) dream of building an ideal society all over the world, Russian public opinion is now concerned about what to offer instead. What values a new strategy of development should be based on? It is especially difficult to say after we failed to adopt Western reforms without taking into account peculiarities of the Russian mentality. As A. I. Solzhenitsyn once said, in order to lead such a great country as Russia is, it is necessary to feel all the centuries of its history. Otherwise the country might lose more than get.