Russian Empire - USSR - RF
The country is looking for itself - society and the state, forming a new identity, restore the old ones and create new institutions, images and symbols of the country. Society is modernized, the state is rebuilt, continuity and gap with pre -revolutionary Russia and with the USSR are discussed, the issue "Where is Russia going?". But the transformation of Russia into the USSR and then its collapse problematized Russia territorially, Russia as a country became a problem.