The political rights and freedoms in the statement of civilization in Russia: ideological sources and present

Abstract. Article represents the analysis of a role of the political rights and freedoms in the statement of civilization from the point of view of ideological sources and a current state. The author, addressing to conclusions of thinkers of New time and Russia concerning achievement of the status of the citizen, considers that people only in that case will be active participants of political life – active citizens if they are members of the developed civil society which is also possible only from the moment of appearance of the citizen as the independent and individual member of the society allocated with a certain complex of the political rights and freedoms