Nature and Evolution of Russian Capitalism

The article presents the research of origin, nature and evolution of the Russian capitalism. The existing approaches to the definition of the concept "capitalism" are considered, methodological approaches of various schools and directions of economic theory that classify economic systems are listed and analyzed. The models of the analysis of the historical development of the Russian economic system are studied. They allow identifying the main stages in the formation of the Russian capitalism, its features and evolutionary transformations. The comparison of various concepts and theories describing the current state of the Russian economic system is carried out. For the purpose of systematization of researches, the "Map of the Russian capitalism" is proposed, which is a generalized descriptive scheme of methodological concepts and theories of the development of capitalism in Russia.