ABSTRACT
Present-day post-Communism has many dimensions indeed, and it is for this reason that its various aspects can be described within the framework of various theoretical models. Despite its relative character as a whole, the notion of the global democratic wave encompasses diversified processes which take place in different regions of today's world and which are united in this way or another both by attempts of transition from various non-democratic forms of rule and by some general factors and circumstances. In some democratic countries there are still national problems that have not been solved—the problem concerning Basques and Corsica for Spain, Quebec for Canada, Northern Ireland for Great Britain, to mention a few. Efforts to understand the changes that have taken place in post-Communist Russia during its democratic transit presuppose, as the people have already said, the revealing of general and specific elements, which is needed for subsequent theoretical generalisations.
