2026/2(45)
Contents
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Occupation Regime and
Nazi Criminals in the Krasnodar Region (1942-1943): An Analysis
of Eyewitness Testimonies
APPLIED RESEARCH
On the spread of stone architecture in the Arctic region. Construction
of a cathedral in the Sumskoy Fortress
Art project “My Contemporaries”: аxiological foundations
Traditional water transport
of the Amur basin
Authorial repetition and copy
in the creative practice of Vladimir painters of the 1980s - 1990s (based on the archive of GOSNIIR
Scientific Expertise Department)
Formation and development
of copyright in China: from doctrine to instruments of state cultural policy
HERITAGE PRESERVATION
Study of the X-ray of “Landscape. Pargolovo” by Fyodor Vasilyev
(the Radischev Art Museum, Saratov)
Cultural transmission mechanisms and modes in the context of historical development of the Stronsky artistic dynasty
Digital twin as an object of protection of lost heritage
Chukotka baidara: technology and the preservation of traditions. Experience building an Eskimo baidara in the village of Sireniki
in 2025
Historical practices and conceptual evolution in the conservation
of China's large archaeological sites
MUSEOLOGY
Tainitskaya Tower of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin: historical and architectural review
Mikhalskaya O., Chuvilkina Yu.
Contribution of collector Felix Evgenievich Vishnevsky to the development of Russian museum collections
Biblical scenes on an 18th century tiled stove of the Novodevichy convent in Moscow
Publ. 04/05/2026
Archives
Minakov A.
Westernism as a disease of Russian civilization
Abstract. We deal with the phenomenon of Russian Westernism as an ideology that has as its main objective the mechanical change to a different civilizational basis Western European institutions and values without taking into account the cultural and historical specificity of Russia.
Westernism is only indirectly connected with borrowing from the West the knowledge and technologies in the military-technical, scientific, cultural and other spheres.
As a result of the ideological and political influence of Westerners in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries foreign interests, ideology, customs had often for the Russian ruling class a higher priority than their own. The article describes the reaction to the Westernization of Peter the Great of foreign ideologists J.-J. Rousseau and J. De Maistre and national oriented thinkers N.M. Karamzin, A.S. Shishkov, S.N. Glinka and M.P. Pogodin. Despite the opposition of traditionalists and conservatives in the second half of the XIXth century, Russian social thought was dominated by Westernized in its genesis and nature such ideologies as liberalism, populism and socialism.At the present stage different varieties of Westernized ideology are often based on russophobia and they openly declare the necessity of de-sovereignization and partition of historical Russia.
Key words: Westernism, the reaction of conservative thought on Russian Westernism, pro-western course in Russian public opinion and policy, the negative effects of Westernizing project.
Minakov Arkady Yurievich,
D. in History, full professor,
Voronezh State University (Voronezh),
e-mail: minak.arkady2010@yandex.ru
Published: The Heritage Institute Journal, 2018/2(13)
URL: http://nasledie-journal.ru/en/journals/224.html
Founder
Likhachev Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage
Publisher
Likhachev Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage
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of the Mass information mediaregistration:
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date: 17.12.2014
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