Historiosophical aspects of domestic democracy: article 1

The article represents the first part of the planned work on the historiosophical consideration of domestic democracy. It reflects the methodological issues concerning the definition of this concept, as well as the general specific features of the Russian political genesis, the component of which is the democracy. The authors adhere to an expanded interpretation of democracy, seeing here as the key criterion the weight of the initiative of the grassroots - in fact, it acts as a basic circumstance, albeit intertwined in some cases with the initiatives of the central government. The three most common forms of democracy are stated: corporate, local government and social movements. Domestic political genesis is characterized by the distancing of the supreme power from grassroots initiatives, which is largely due to a number of objective factors: natural-geographical, geopolitical, diffuse and the factor of intra-elite contradictions, which initiates competition in Russian history between two models of political order: polycentric and monocentric.