Political drift of society as a category of political life

The author considers four hypostases of the term political drift, political time passionarity and political time, with the help of which it is possible to analyse the vector of political development of modern Russian society. The study’s subject is the political processes, which characterise political crises. The study’s purpose is to analyse the political drift of society as a category of political life. To achieve the purpose and solve the tasks set by the author, Soviet, Russian, and foreign sources of information, including the works of the great philosopher Lev N. Gumilyov, were used. The author comes to an understanding of political drift as a category of political science, since it reflects the most significant natural connections and relations of real political life. Political drift is inherent in any society. Therefore, it is methodologically important to understand that the political drift of society cannot be considered in isolation from historical time. Based on the analysis, it follows that the category of “political drift of society” has an ambiguous interpretation: on the one hand, this indicates the complexity of the political phenomenon itself and the inability to use only one approach for its comprehensive characterization, on the other – the lack of elaboration of this phenomenon