№ 3 - 2007
Gavrilova M.V.
Modernization of Russian Political Discourse in the Aspect of Meanings Read into Notions (With the Explication of the Concept “State” as an Example)

The subject considered in the article consists in the problems of reinterpretation of the concept “state” in the periods of transformation of the Russian statehood (at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries). Investigating particular features of the explication of the concept “state” (the key one in Russian political discourse through the 20th century) in the Russian presidents’ inaugurals, the author reveals its prototypical structure. The author researches those particularities of the conceptualization of the notion “state”, which reflect the changes of the Russian political system in the late 20th – early 21st centuries.