Political and economic factors of integration processes in the Russian elite

Abstract

The article argues that to assess consolidation of the society and its’ elite, to elaborate mechanisms of national security provision the meth-odological instruments of dialectics are necessary. It will allow determine the measure and limits of consolidation and reconsolidation, to find out its’ essential difference from integration and reintegration of the society. It is shown that consolidation of the society has it’s qualitative and quantitative measure and qualitative and quantitative assessment of consolidation al-lows to determine essence of category, it’s modern incarnation, trends of strengthening or weakening, to present mechanisms of national security provision due to modern stage of development. Consolidation is viewed as a specific case of integration under coinsicion of the society and the state preferences, society and personal interests, interests of different elites and the state as a whole. Efficiency of the social development principles imple-mentation depends mostly on integration of the society as a new quality of adoption of the differently aimed interests but not consolidation on the only one platform.