Пролегомены к политической социологии ленинизма

• Published in: Социология: теория, методы, маркетинг
• Date: 2000
• Main Author: Кутуев, П.
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Iнститут соціології НАН України 2000
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/89856
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: Пролегомены к политической социологии ленинизма / П. Кутуев // Социология: теория, методы, маркетинг. — 2000. — № 4. — С. 32–68. — Бібліогр.: 84 назв. — рос.

Drawing heavily upon Weber’s value-free political sociology and Ken Jowitt’s vision
 of Leninism, the paper suggests that Leninist regimes are best conceptualized as a
 unique blend of charismatic, impersonal and traditional elements. Being a political
 and ideological response to conditions of national dependency in peripheral societies
 of traditional bent, Leninism created new political entity — the party as organizational
 weapon — which was a bearer of impersonal charisma. Application of analitical tool
 box elaborated by Weber and Jowitt increases our understanding of the internal
 developmental logic of Leninist regimes while helping to draw a distinction between
 revolutionary system-building politics of Leninist type and nationalist modernizing
 regimes of the Third World on the one hand and fascist regimes on the other.
 The article offers an account of developmental stages of Leninist regimes— trans -
 formation, consolidation, and inclusion. The latter stage purpose was to accommodate
 new, more complex social and cultural environment to regime’s demands. Having lost
 its combat task during inclusion stage, the party entered the period of neotraditionalist
 routinization of its organizational charisma which resulted in a clash between Leninist
 status oriented cadres and emergent civic oriented styles of life. Regime’s inability to
 resolve the tension between the two mutually exclusive elements — party cadre and
 citizen — resulted in “Leninist extinction” and disappearance of Leninism as an
 alternative life style.