MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE RUSSIAN POLITICAL ELITE (2020–2025)

Abstract

The article examines contemporary Russian historiography on the political elite of Russia in the period 2020–2025. The study employs methods of historiographical analysis, the problem-chronological and comparative approaches, as well as elements of structural-historical analysis of scholarly works. As a result, the main directions in the study of the Russian political elite are identified, and a shift is recorded from transitological and normative interpretations toward an analysis of continuity, structural transformation, and adaptation of the elite stratum in the recent history of Russia. It is demonstrated that contemporary historiography increasingly interprets the political elite as a relatively stable socio-power group whose evolution is determined by long-term historical processes of post-Soviet development. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the systematization and clarification of historiographical approaches to the study of the Russian political elite, while its practical significance consists in the possibility of applying the findings in further research and in teaching courses on contemporary Russian history and the history of the post-Soviet space.