The significant role of the individual in history

Politicians, philosophers, historians, sociologists at all times and throughout the civilized world were interested in the problem: "the role of the individual in history." In the recent Soviet past, the Marxist-Leninist approach prevailed: the main driving force of society is people, the working masses. They form the society, the classes. People create history and put forward heroes from their midst.

With these it is difficult to argue, but you can put accents differently. Society to realize Significant goals in their development, just need passionaries (more about this later), leaders, leaders who are able to foresee the course of social development deeper and more fully than others, understand goals, identify landmarks and lead like-minded people.

One of the first Russian Marxists G.V. Plekhanov claimed that the leader was great "in that he had features that made him the most capable of serving the great social needs of his time, which arose under the influence of general and special reasons."

What are the criteria to be guided by determining the role of the individual in history? Philosophy judges by the fact,

A) how important the idea for society generates this person,

B) what organizational abilities it possesses and how it can mobilize the masses for the solution of national projects,

C) what result the society will achieve under the leadership of this leader.

It is most convincing to judge the role of the individual in the history of Russia. VI Lenin headed the state for no more than 7 years, but left a significant mark. Today it is evaluated with a plus sign and a minus sign. But no one can deny that this person entered the history of Russia and the whole world, influencing the fate of several generations. Evaluation of activities I.V. Stalin went through all stages - from admiration and then years of silence - to a decisive condemnation and denial of all his activities and again to the search for a rational in the actions of "the leader All times and peoples ". In the last years of LI's life. Brezhnev only lazy did not tease the "leader", and after decades it turned out that his reign turned out to be the golden mean for the Soviet Union, only the subsequent grief-reformers not only failed to multiply achievements, but squandered the potential created in the post-war decades. And today the evaluation of its activities is undergoing changes again. It seems that once the personality of M.S. Gorbachev. He would now have become a national hero and a recognized world authority, if the "restructuring of 1985-1991 g", conceived by him and his team, had not been so disastrous. We remember how many "Yeltsinists" were in the country in the nineties, until it became obvious that this "democratic leader", together with his team, was surrendering Russia, being under the hood of the American administration. Probably, life will still make amendments, much is hidden from the eyes of contemporaries, but a lot has been published. Let him who has ears hear.

But today it would be good to turn to the theory of passionarity of Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev. In the passionary theory of ethnogenesis, people of an energy-rich type are those citizens who possess an innate ability to receive from the external environment more energy than is required only for species and personal self-preservation. They can give this energy as a purposeful activity, which aims to modify the environment. Evidence of increased passionarity characterization of human behavior and his psyche.

The role of the individual in history under certain conditions becomes for them the engine , Thanks to such quality as dedication. In these cases, the passionarians seek to change the surrounding space in accordance with their accepted ethnic values. All these actions and actions such a person commensurate with the moral norms that come from ethnic values.

The role of personality in the history of such people is that they are people of new thinking in the population. They are not afraid to break the old way of life. They are able to become and become the main link of new ethnic groups. Passionarians put forward, develop and implement innovations.

Probably, among contemporaries too there are many tribunes. For ethical reasons, we will not call those who live now. But before the eyes there is a portrait of the leader of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, which was written about during his lifetime, that this is the hope of progressive humanity. Russian cosmonauts, outstanding athletes, scientists, researchers - they are also heroes because they do not need to be exalted, but simply do business. History will determine their role. And she is a fair lady, only with the result postponed in future generations.