The people are a community of people

Earlier in the eastern Slavs, this concept was associated with blood relationship and was derived from the old verb "to be born." Rooted words: gender, relative. But in modern Russian, people are a much broader term. Thus, this word can be used to determine the population of a particular country or a historically formed human community. And also a large number of people gathered together, or working masses. All this is successfully applied in the definition of "people - this", used in the socio-political sense, and in the general cultural ethnic.

The people and the nation

In political terms, the word people is sometimes identified with the concept of a nation, being something of a synonym for it. However, this is not quite true. A nation is a socio-cultural community that has evolved in the formation of a single state. And the people are also a community of people, but united by corresponding global signs (culture and language, origin and faith and the like). In this context, a nation is a broader concept existing within the country and statehood. The people are something less extensive, but often existing outside the boundaries and social laws. So, several nations can represent the nation. And different ethnic groups, for example, can be united into one people.

Ethnography and Political Science

Narodopisanie, as a science, is called ethnography. Here, by the people, we mean an ethnos (a human group), a common descent - connected by ties of blood relationship. Later, describing the ethnos, they began to use secondary signs that contribute to unification: language and territory, religion and historical past, culture and customs.

In political science and political economy, people often oppose the elite, which has power. This concept denotes the mass of the population that does not have privileges, by number - the main (basis).

friendship of Peoples

Some believe that this is just one of the most used terms of the Soviet past. Does the friendship of peoples really exist as a phenomenon, or is it still a notion of the ideological policy of the state of the USSR? Undoubtedly, there has been no ideology here. And the friendship of peoples is a segment of interethnic politics, methodically conducted in the Union from the time of Leninism and Stalinism, by the most, to no, Brezhnev era of stagnation. Then, in the opinion of historians, this policy was superseded by the idea of the multinationality of the Russian Federation (roughly from the late 1980s). The concept itself, which includes the notion of "friendship of peoples", and the solution of the national question in a young Soviet country, did not emerge immediately. It is known that Lenin spoke only of the oppression of certain peoples (not Russians) in the former imperialist Russia and of the pressing need to finally solve the questions of nationality. But under Stalin in 1935 it was stated that the trust between the peoples of the USSR had grown, and that the national question could be considered already solved. And the Russian people themselves took the place of honor of the "elder brother" in relation to others who live in the state.

It is interesting that today the friendship of the peoples is fixed, it can be said, even constitutionally. The Constitution of the Russian Federation speaks of the multinational people of Russia, making it clear that this phenomenon is not empty words, but the unity and good attitude of peoples to each other is the norm of social life.

Culture of the people

In this context, however, one should not forget that every people has its own culture, heritage, language, customs. All this together, called the general word - the culture of the people, should be kept as much as possible and transferred to the descendants. For these purposes, there are folk museums, and the true keepers of traditions preserve and multiply the cultural heritage of this or that (sometimes very few) people.