Круглый стол, посвященный проблемам развития гражданского общества в России, состоялся в конце 2011 г. Ученые рассуждают о настоящем, прошлом и будущем гражданского общества в России, дают первые оценки возросшей гражданской активности в стране.

The Round Table on the problems of the development of the civil society in Russia took place in the end of 2011. Well-known Russian political scientists, historians, and philosophers took part in the discussion.

The main difficulties of Modernization of Russian social system are not connected with the fact, that values of "private property" and "private interest" are not rooted in Russian mentality and political culture. On the contrary our main problem is totality of value of "private", as before it was the totality of value of "common". Civil modernization in Russia would require the development of values for internal limitation of "private interest". It is not enough to just substitute total value of "common" by total value of "private". It is important to transform value of "private interest" from it's paternalistic to civil type.

Democracy presupposes people's mutual recognition as equally valuable and individually different. People's individual specific features are largely determined by peculiarities of their cultures. What, then. about cultures whose values are hardly compatible with the democratic principle of mutual recognition? with democracy in its West-Atlantic historical variant? Is their modernization compatible with democratization? Thorough wording and substantial interpretation of such questions. search for ways and means of answering them make the contents of this article.

In May, 2008, a Round Table was carried out at the Institute of Philosophy, RAS. In the discussion took part well-known Russian political philosophers, political scientists and sociologists A.A.Gusseynov, I.K.Pantin, V.T.Tretyakov, A.G.Glinchikova, A.A.Kara-Murza, T.A.Alekseyeva, A.V.Shubin, B.Yu.Kagarlitzky, S.L.Chizhkov, P.M.Kudyukin, I.M.Klyamkin, V.L.Tzymbursky, A.G.Sytin, M.M.Fyodorova, G.G.Vodolazov, V.I.Pantin, as well as their German collegue E.Altvater. The problems discussed referred to the understanding of the content of democracy, to the diversity of its models and to their correlation with real historical practice, to specific character and prospects of the democratic process in Russia.

В мае 2008 г. в Институте философии Российской Академии наук прошел Круглый стол, организаторами которого выступили Институт философии РАН, а также журналы «Полис» и «Политический класс». В дискуссии приняли участие видные российские политические философы, политологи и социологи А.А.Гусейнов, И.К.Пантин, В.Т.Третьяков, А.Г.Глинчикова, А.А.Кара-Мурза, М.М.Федорова, Т.А.Алексеева, А.В.Шубин, Б.Ю.Кагарлицкий, С.Л.Чижков, П.М.Кудюкин, И.М.Клямкин,. В.Л.Цымбурский, А.Г.Сытин, В.И.Пантин, Г.Г.Водолазов, а также их немецкий коллега Э.Альтфатер. Обсуждались проблемы понимания содержания демократии, разнообразия ее моделей и их соотнесения с реальной исторической практикой, специфики и перспектив демократического процесса в России.