2019/4(19)
CONTENTS
Use of the heritage
Using the historical and cultural potential of the territory in organizing thematic historical parks of the value-semantic matrix of Russia: external actors of destruction
Underwater cultural heritage
Submarine No. 2: history of creation and loss, prospects of acquisition
Museum of the History of the Russian Submarine Forces named after A.I. Marinesco and its role in the socio-cultural space of the Kalinin district of St. Petersburg
Russian foreign heritage
Miklouho-Maclay and Russian place names on the map of Papua New Guinea
Historical Research
Soviet constructivism
Applied Research
On the role of decoration in the attribution of bronze bells of Russian production
Innovative competencies in educational strategies to improve professional skills
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
Russian Scientific Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage
named after D.Likhachev
Publisher
Russian Scientific Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage
named after D.Likhachev
Certificate
registration:
ЭЛ № ФС 77–60211,
date: 17.12.2014
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4 issues per year
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