SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGES IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA: FEATURES OF RADICAL REFORMING

Abstract

The article studies socio-political changes in the post-Soviet Russia through the context of radical reforming processes. The article compares the processes of evolutionary reforming with the radical ones, aiming at the identification of liberal reforms of the 1990s. The author concludes that the notion of “reforming" is not suitable for those changes. It is stated that their radicalism could bring the country to the national catastrophe. Positive effect of measures taken on strengthening the Russian power vertical in the 2000s is noted as a way of overcoming radical reforming methods.