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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kaspy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">THE CASPIAN REGION: politics, economics, culture</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic" /><issn publication-format="print">1818-510X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="ru">Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1538</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>Civil society: the possibility and reality</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>Civil society: the possibility and reality</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Gobosov</surname><given-names>I.A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Gobosov</surname><given-names>I.A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>igobozov@bk.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2574" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff2574"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Lomonosov Moscow State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Lomonosov Moscow State University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2017</year></pub-date><issue>1</issue><fpage>150</fpage><lpage>158</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2017/issue/1/article/1538">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2017/issue/1/article/1538</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/1(50)/150-158.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/1(50)/150-158.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>This article is devoted to topical issues of civil society. The author believes that civil society has emerged in the era of the foundation and development of bourgeois social relations. That is during capitalism person is able to act freely inside existing laws and regulations, and to express its position on various issues, create political parties, trade unions and organizations of various kinds movement (youth, women, sports, etc.), and so on. In other words, capitalism means is not only the formal structures and institutions, but also informal.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This article is devoted to topical issues of civil society. The author believes that civil society has emerged in the era of the foundation and development of bourgeois social relations. That is during capitalism person is able to act freely inside existing laws and regulations, and to express its position on various issues, create political parties, trade unions and organizations of various kinds movement (youth, women, sports, etc.), and so on. In other words, capitalism means is not only the formal structures and institutions, but also informal.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>гражданское общество</kwd><kwd>формирование и становление</kwd><kwd>капитализм</kwd><kwd>свобода</kwd><kwd>самосознание</kwd><kwd>социальные связи</kwd><kwd>социальная солидарность</kwd><kwd>абстрактная возможность</kwd><kwd>конкретная действительность</kwd><kwd>сivil society</kwd><kwd>the formation and establishment</kwd><kwd>capitalism</kwd><kwd>freedom</kwd><kwd>identity</kwd><kwd>social cohesion</kwd><kwd>social solidarity</kwd><kwd>abstract possibility</kwd><kwd>concrete reality</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>гражданское общество</kwd><kwd>формирование и становление</kwd><kwd>капитализм</kwd><kwd>свобода</kwd><kwd>самосознание</kwd><kwd>социальные связи</kwd><kwd>социальная солидарность</kwd><kwd>абстрактная возможность</kwd><kwd>конкретная действительность</kwd><kwd>сivil society</kwd><kwd>the formation and establishment</kwd><kwd>capitalism</kwd><kwd>freedom</kwd><kwd>identity</kwd><kwd>social cohesion</kwd><kwd>social solidarity</kwd><kwd>abstract possibility</kwd><kwd>concrete reality</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement /></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement /></funding-group></article-meta></front><body /><back><ref-list /></back></article>