Paper short abstract:

In Russia today one can see the latent rebirth of the official pre-1917 ideology, "Orthodoxy - autocracy - nationhood", in the shape: "Orthodoxy - state - Russian ethnicity". Its instilling would contradict the society's present conditions and trends of development, as well as global tendencies.

Paper long abstract:

In Russia today one can observe the latent rebirth of the official pre-revolution ideological postulate, "Orthodoxy - autocracy - nationhood", in the new shape: "Orthodoxy - state - Russian ethnicity". This postulate's instilling can be possible only in a state the power of which "impends" over the people being legitimized by the assertion about the relation between it and the society by way of Orthodox Christianity. In the quasi-religious present-day Russian society Orthodox Christianity's actual becoming the state ideology would also result in quasi-sacralization of power: The appearance of a civil religion with a distinctive nationalistic component under its cloak. The instilling of the "Orthodoxy - state - Russian ethnicity" ideological postulate would contradict the Russian society's present conditions and trends of development, as well as the global tendencies. Formal religiosity has already become, and consolidation of Orthodox Christianity as state ideology can become, a characteristic feature of the Russian version of contemporary post-religious society.