In the article the opposition «we» and «they» is considered (based upon the author’s definition of civil identity) in various sociocultural situations, historical eras taking into account civilization specifics. Splits of society provoke distinctions of degree of formation of civil identity and cause its features. The author comes to a conclusion that social splits and stratifications don’t give the methodical chance to study civil identity as a certain universality. So, the paradoxical civil identity is formed in nowadays Russia.
