2025/2(41)
special issue

Scientific practical conference
of graduate students
and young scientists

ARTS AND CULTURE SCIENCES:
ADVANCED RESEARCH

Moscow, 2025, 22-23 January

Part 1

REPORTS

Bazhenova I.

Synthesis of genres in theatrical arts (on the example of the Musical theatre ‘On Basmannaya’)

Berezina N.

Best practices for the implementation of modern measures for the preservation, use and popularization of cultural heritage
in the Vologda region

Borsukovskaya G.

The cultural system of the indigenous population of the Canary islands as a relic of Neolithic culture

Borunov S.

Specifics of commemoration
of the events of the Crimean front
of the Great Patriotic war in fiction cinematography of the Stalin and Khrushchev periods of the USSR (1944–1964)

Valkova I.

Testing of individual methods
for removing dirt from the surface
of furniture without a finishing coating

Garafutdinov D.

The period of formation of the Chekhov International theater festival as a new theatrical institution

Kostin N.

Regional сultural and information policy: challenges and prospects

Orlov S.

Artificial intelligence and determining the authorship of electronic texts
as a cultural problem

Talovin K.

Cultural potential of archaeological metal finds

Chebykin D.

The specifics of the implementation of soft power in foreign cultural policy (USA, China and Russia
for examples)

Publ. 06/05/2025

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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4 issues per year

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