Earlier in the eastern Slavs the concept associated with consanguinity and comes from the old verb "people."Cognate words: gender, relative.But in modern Russian people - it is a much broader term.So, this word can be determined by the population of a particular country or historically formed human community.As well as a large number of people gathered together, and the working masses.All this is quite successfully used in the definition of "people - is" as used in socio-political terms, and general cultural ethnicity.
people and nation
The political significance of the word nation is sometimes identified with the concept of the nation, being something of a synonym.However, this is not true.Nation - a socio-cultural community that has developed in the formation of a separate state.And the people - it is also a community of people, but the combined relevant global features (culture and language, origin and faith, and the like).In this context, the nation - a broader concept that exists within the country and the state.People - it is something less extensive, but often outside the boundaries of the existing laws and social.For the nation may be a few people.A variety of ethnic groups, for example, can be combined into a single nation.
Ethnography and Political Science
description of people, like science, is called ethnography.Here, the people meant ethnicity (human group), common origin - linked by ties of kinship.Later, describing the ethnic group, and began to use secondary characteristics, contributing to the unification of language and territory, religion and historical past, culture and customs.
in political science and political economy of the people often oppose the elite that has power.This concept refers to the mass of the population, do not have the privilege, the number - basic (basis).
Friendship of Peoples
Some believe that it is - only one of the most used terms of the Soviet past.Is there an earnest friendship between the peoples as a phenomenon, or is it all the same notion of the ideological policy of the USSR?Of course, no ideology there has not been.A friendship of peoples - a segment of ethnic policy, methodically carried out in the Union since the days of Leninism and Stalinism on the most that neither is on, the Brezhnev era of stagnation.Then, according to historians, this policy has been superseded by the idea of multi-ethnicity of the Russian Federation (roughly from the end of the 80s).The concept, which includes the concept of "friendship of peoples", and the solution of the national question in the young Soviet country were born at once.It is known that Lenin spoke only about the oppression of some people (not Russian) in the former imperial Russia, and the urgent need to solve, finally, questions of nationality.But under Stalin in 1935, it was stated that the increased trust between the peoples of the USSR, and that the national question can already be considered a foregone conclusion.And the Russian people took pride of place "elder brother" towards others living in the state.
interesting that today the friendship of peoples is fixed, it can be said, even constitutional.The Russian Constitution says the multinational people of Russia, making it clear that this phenomenon - not empty words, but a good attitude and the unity of peoples to each other - the rate of public life.
Culture People
In this context it should, however, remember that every nation has the inherent only to him alone culture, heritage, language, customs.All this together, called the common word - culture of the people, should be the most preserved and passed to descendants.For these purposes, and there are folk museums, as the true guardians of traditions to save and multiply the cultural heritage of one or another (sometimes even very few) people.
