“How Do We Arrange Russia”: The Problem of Social Harmony in the Discourse of Post-Soviet Identity
Journal: RUDN Journal of Political Science
Year: 2023

The collapse of the Soviet Union, the large-scale transformation of the political and social structure in the early 1990s actualized the problem of nation-building in the new Russian state. The search for a “national idea” has contributed to the fact that over the past thirty years several dominant concepts of identity have changed in the Russian official discourse: from the denial of Soviet identity and the strategy of rapprochement with Western democracies to the construction of a great-power