RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE ENRICHES THE THEORY OF PARTIES

The readers of Politeia interested in the life of Russian political parties are used to get information from very detailed and thoughtful reviews by Yuriy Korgunyuk. This review offered to their attention is on his not less profound work that covers the experience of modern Russian party system development for more then one hundred years. K.Kholodovsky finds it one of the biggest merit of this monograph that Yu.Korgunyuk does not only give the full chronicle of the Russian party life events and facts but there is also a theoretical section; and unlike similar sections in books by many other authors the theoretical postulates are based on vivid Russian material and are pointed to a specific research guiding the analysis and helping to organize particular conclusions into a system. K.Kholodovsky believes that we did not have works on this topic where the cover of specific historical material would so successfully match its conceptual interpretation. Of course, not all Korgunyuk's conclusions seem convincing; the reviewer challenges some of them. However, the main thing, and it is well seen in the review, is that he likes to challenge them because behind each construct let not always irreproachable there is a living thought.