THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STATEHOOD

<p>The population of every more or less large and successful state has a certain spiritual core around which its social activity is built. For Russia in our opinion the basic values of such a spiritual core were commitment to the conservative Orthodox tradition and collectivism supplemented by a third constantly developing value the imperial-Eurasian worldview. The chronological framework of the monograph covers the period from Kievan-Novgorod Rus to the present day. The book will be useful not only for researchers and university teachers but also for students studying in programs for training lawyers political scientists and historians.</p>