The significant role of the individual in history

Politicians, philosophers, historians, sociologists inall the times and in the whole civilized world the problem was interested: "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. The 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 necessarypassionarians (more about this later), leaders, leaders who are capable of earlier, to deeper and more fully anticipate the course of social development, 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 much it manages to mobilize the masses for the decision of nationwide projects,

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

The most convincing is to judge the role of the individual in historyRussia. 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 resolute 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 life L.Brezhnev only lazy did not tease the "leader", and after decades it became clear that the time of his rule was 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 recall how many "Yeltsinists" were in the country in the nineties, until it became obvious that this "democratic leader", along 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 is good to turn to the theorypassionarity 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 an engine

, thanks to such quality aspurposefulness. In these cases, the passionaries 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 isin 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 there is alsomany 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.