2026/3(46)

Contents

HISTORICAL RESEARCH

Filin P.

Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, the search for the Northeast Passage and Russian maritime culture in the late 16th century

APPLIED RESEARCH

Bychkova O.

Role of popular science tourism infrastructure in the popularization and preservation of scientific and technical heritage

Zinovieva N.

Network culture in the context of two approaches to research issues

Kovbasyuk T.

Significant extension to an existing property on the example of the World Heritage site ‘White monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal

Kostina N.

Methodological approaches to working with the cultural heritage of the region in the context of the cultural and educational policy of modern Russia

Khilko N.

Objectification as a form of digital reconstruction of lost cultural heritage in the urban environment of tourist sites Western Siberia

INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

Kitov Yu., Egorova M.

Genesis and development of Evenki circle dances as a cultural phenomenon of historical and modern Yakutia

CULTURAL HERITAGE STUDIES

Kukhterin S., Yermolov E. 

Karbas of the 17th century. An Oransky find on the coast of Novaya Zemlya

Okorokov A.

40 years of the Marine Arctic Complex Expedition of the Heritage Institute

Seleznev A.

Shamanic ladder in the Muslim cemetery: to the semantics of the ornamented on-grave posts of the Tobol-Irtysh Tatars

Selezneva S.

Identification of immovable cultural heritage objects in Russia: conceptual, regulatory and regional aspects

HERITAGE PRESERVATION

Soloviev A., Berezina N.

International and foreign models for the preservation of immovable cultural heritage: a comparative legal and cultural analysis

Spivak D.

Cultural heritage in actual UNESCO strategy

MUSEOLOGY

Pleshchenko V.

The corporate museum as a tool for preserving the history and accumulating the business reputation of the company

Sarkisova E.

School as a center for the preservation of cultural heritage: from the experience of cultural and educational activities of school museums

Publ. 18/09/2026

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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

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Likhachev Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage

Publisher

Likhachev Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage

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