The ghost of the nation. Russian ethnos in post -percessality

The book of the St. Petersburg writer, the author of many works on the analytics of modernity, the laureate of the intellectual competition "Idea for Russia", the expert of the International Association "Russian Culture" tells how exactly the main parameters of the Russian national character were formed. Why the Russians are more prone to feat (heroic effort) than to daily measured work. Why do they neglect formal legality, preferring justice to her. Why the state is in the Russian national consciousness a special superiority and why Russians can live only in a great power. Why the Russian nation formed a strange "empire on the contrary" and what is the national universalism characteristic of the Russian.
The book also answers an important question: what is a national idea, what are the patterns of its formation and why the national idea is necessary for modern Russia