ABSTRACT
In modem Russian usage the expression “national interest” is difficult to use directly from English. Soviet leaders and scholars were also able to talk of national interests in class terms because the Soviet Union’s national interests were, ostensibly, the interests of working masses of the country, represented by its ruling body - the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Chechen Ruslan Khasbulatov, the speaker of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation in 1992-93, and the Jew, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, are clear examples of such a transformation. The Soviet leaders did everything they deemed necessary in order to achieve the goal of global pre-eminence. The Soviet system of promotion of the nomenklatura - the ruling strata of the Soviet society doomed the viability and intellectual capabilities of the ruling class.
