Матрица Московии и ее реинкарнации: как реальность опровергает благие пожелания

Общественные науки и современность. 2017. № 6. С. 67–76.

А.П.Заостровцев

The article examines the main characteristics of the institutional structure of Russia: its historical origin and modern features. The attention is drawn to two opposite approaches: Russia is moving in the general stream of modernization, or it is going along a special path opposing the institutions of rule of law. The clashes between Moscovia and the Great Duchy of Lithuania in the past were interpreted as a confrontation between two incompatible civilization: the Asian (state) mode of production and the lawbased society. Six main qualities of the presence institutional core (the matrix of Muscovy) are singled out along with the role of culture as an informal institution and its decisive influence on the development and the countries prospects.

Keywords: правовая культура, service state, an administrative rent, административная рента, power-property, сословное общество, institutional core, институциональное ядро, власть-собственность, mental models, ментальные модели, Matrix of Muscovia, law-based culture, potestary culture, traditional society of the modern type, samovlastie (authoritarianism), estate society, Матрица Московии, потестарная культура, традиционное общество современного типа, самовластье, служилое государство