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Contents
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Stylistic features of the Stroganov' glassblowing plastics of the 1960s - 1980s
History of the horse-breeding portrait as a utilitarian genre in the traditions of Russian art of the late
XVIII-XIX centuries
“Expedition in Time and Space”
on Lake Onega
Military education of servicemen of the Russian army in the second half of the 19th century – early
20th century: historical experience, lessons
INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
I.A. Ilyin on Pushkin's heritage
and the antitheses of its interpretation
Yalta branch of the Crimean State Philharmonic in the cultural
and historical retrospective
of development
HERITAGE PRESERVATION
Tourism as a factor in preserving
the unique cultural heritage of
the Kenozersky National Park
Reconstruction vs «Disneyification» of cultural heritage
Patterns of non-governmental digital heritage preservation in Russia
Current problems of the actuel system of protected zones for cultural heritage sites in Russia
Experience of preserving authentic winemaking as part of the cultural heritage of the region (based on
the material of the Spanish movement of «terroirists»)
MUSEOLOGY
Memorial landscape on the coast
of the Sea of Azov: the first steps to organize a museum complex in the
homeland of Fedor Konyukhov
Prerequisites for the emergence
and features of the functioning
of museums of Russian writers
in the CIS member states
Role of volunteers in preserving landscape art, using the example
of estate complexes in central Russia
REVIEWS
»Archaeology of the Russian Arctic»: book review
Publ. 10/02/2026
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
Certificate
of the Mass information mediaregistration:
ЭЛ № ФС 77–60211,
date: 17.12.2014
Frequency
4 issues per year
Published on-line only
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