ABSTRACT
Russia's multipower system is developing under the influence of social, economic, and political modernization processes, adopting standards of party building and parliamentarism that are novel for Russia's political culture but traditional for developed countries. The habitual from-a-movement-to-a-party pattern is being complemented with a from-a-party-to-a-movement model. This feature of Russia's multipartisanship is a product of the absence of a civil society and of a general perception of the partisanship phenomenon as an authoritarian party. In the absence of a civil society and a law-based state, overcoming the alienation presupposes that the party affiliation will provide answers to individual requirements in civil society and the law-based state. The enduring existence of constitutional and unconstitutional, parliamentary and antiparliament parties is hard to imagine within the political culture of European parliamentarism, given the law-based nature of the European political space. Parties and party blocs become centers of legitimacy.
