№ 2 - 2010
Toshchenko Zh.T.
Particularities of Modern Ochlocracy

The author investigates the phenomenon of ochlocracy, scarcely explored in contemporary academic literature. Anyway, its instances have not infrequently been observable in epochs of cardinal socio-economic and socio-political changes. Ochlocratical models and practices, in the author’s opinion, are characteristic also of contemporary political processes, especially of “post-Communist” states.