Periodization models of formation of a multiparty system in modern Russia in studies of the 1990s

The most important aspect of the analysis of the formation of a multiparty system in Russia is a periodization of its development - the division into the separate qualitatively different periods identified in accordance with laws or certain features. Namely the scientific periodization of the process of establishing a multiparty system, the allocation of its separate stages allow fuller understanding the logic and the vector of the development of the party system in our country. In the 1990th years, when the scientific and methodological basis for political studies of the Russian multiparty system was formed, these models laid methodological foundations in the scientific controversy that lead to the current research of the subject.