Orenburg State University, Orenburg, Russia

e-mail: hamidullin_n@mail.ru 

Abstract. The relevance of historical-philosophical analysis of the socio-political thought in Russia in X-XIII centuries is largely determined by the logic of the development of post-Soviet Russia and the special significance of finding optimal ways of socio-political development. The aim of the study is to generalize and philosophical understanding of the main features of the socio-political thought of the distant past. Research methods: comparative-historical, functional, institutional, systemic, and anthropological. The complex application of these methods made it possible to comprehend the functional and dynamic aspects of the formation of socially and politically significant ideas in this historical period. The main results of the study made it possible to conclude that the socio-political thought of the past is deeply positive and historically significant for Russia. It is determined that the formation of Russian socio-political thought in the X-XIII centuries. It took place under the influence of the West, but the specifics of the deployment of this process were largely associated with the specific problems of the development of the Russian state, its ideological and spiritual traditions. It is established that by the end of the XIII century formed the need of the Russian people in the rational organization of their own lives and a set of ideas that provide a fundamental opportunity to take practical steps in this direction.

Keywords: socio-political thought, philosophical comprehension, ancient Russian thinkers, Christianity, the state.