P.B.Struve's Central Idea of Liberalism

P.B.Struve was a leading figure of the early twentieth-century Russian liberal trend and political campaigns.His idea of state,"great Russia",was a distinct program of the national rejuvenation based on conservative liberalism,and represented his inherited and innovative thought of the individual,nation,state and history.He called for a dependence on the national hitorico-cultural tradition and on creative activities of all patriotic forces to establish a new national institution so as to attract the people,especially the intellectual class,to be engaged in national affairs,put an end to the divorce of the state power from socio-cultural elements and the people,and guarantee citizen's rights and performance of political right and constitution,thus advancing Russia to be economically powerful and politically free and naintaining the national traditions and values."Great Russia"was a central idea in Struve's liberalism.It was an important statement put forward for Russian intellectual contemporaries as well an important subject matter in the twentieth century Russian intellectual and cultural history.