Transformation of Civil Society in Modern Russia During a Special Military Operation

Abstract

Relevance. As a Special military operation is carried out in the phase of a full-scale armed conflict, an increasing number of social groups are involved in the process of direct or indirect support of the Russian army and irregular units. There is an ordinal increase in the composition of non-State structures both in the direction of their activities and on a territorial scale. Institutionalized, non-institutionalized and networked associations en masse include all new social aggregations and territorial communities. In this connection, scientific interest is being actualized regarding the study of the ongoing changes in the institutional and functional parameters of the development of the "third sector" of Russia in the conditions of a full-scale armed conflict. In this connection, analytical processing of the modification of the relationship between public and state institutions in the period of ITS.The purpose of this study is to comprehend the transformations of Russian civil society during the Special Military Operation of 2022-2023.Objectives: to determine the causes and prerequisites for the growth of public patriotic upsurge during a special military operation; to typologize changes in the subject composition and channels of state-civil interaction in modern Russia; to identify current trends in the transformation processes of Russian civil society during the period of its.Methodology. To solve the goals and objectives of scientific work, the author applied comparative, structuralfunctional and historical research methods.Results. The majority of the Russian society's support for the fight against militarization and Nazification of Ukraine was expressed in the promotion of amateur civil initiatives to provide comprehensive assistance to the Russian army, residents of the frontline regions. The reasons for public activity should be called the transition of the SVO into the phase of a full-scale struggle with the Atlantic coalition, which required replenishing the structure of the military organization of the state at the expense of volunteer irregular formations. In a historically short period of time, the functions of non-State actors were modernized, which led to the involvement of new types of public associations in the field of civil–military relations network volunteer groups and communities engaged in equipping the belligerent army and its information and advisory support.Conclusion. Despite the inconsistency of the ongoing changes, the sphere of civil-military relations is becoming the dominant direction of civil-state dialogue in the modern Russian Federation. Only those subjects who were able to prove themselves as a link between the army and the people are able to remain effective actors of sociopolitical processes in Russia of the XXI century in the foreseeable future.