2025/4(43)
Contents
BASIC RESEARCH
The value matrix of national cultureas the basis for the formation
of a system of cultural heritage objects
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
In memory of rear admiral
Viktor Ananyevich Dygalo,
a participant in the Great Patriotic war and Victory Day Parade 1945
Member of the Moscow archaeological society,
the moskvoved M.I.Alexandrovsky (1865–1943) – biography and scientific heritage (based on the materials from the State Historical Museum and the Russian State Library)
Image of the Great Victory
in the spatial-symbolic structure
of the cities of Western Siberia
Military discipline in the system
of military education of servicemen of the Russian army in 1855-1914
Family Service as a Contribution
to Russia’s Historical and Cultural Heritage
MARINE CULTURAL HERITAGE
Program “Memory of the Russian Arctic” of the Marine Arctic Complex Expedition at the Natural Heritage: concept, implementation, prospects
Search for the vessel Willem Barents. Results of the expeditions of the Russian Geographical Society and the Ministry of Defense
of Russia to survey Severny Island
of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago
in 2024 and 2025
INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
Symphonic creativity in Abkhazia: socio-cultural aspect
RUSSIAN FOREIGN HERITAGE
Architecture of Alaskan Orthodox Churches
CULTURAL HERITAGE STUDIES
Historical-navigational experiment: theory, methodology, practice
Ornamented on-grave posts
of the Tobol-Irtysh Tatars:
interpretation of cultural heritage
Problems of studying and preserving domestic antiquities in the last quarter of the 19th century
in the letters from the members
of the Moscow Archaeological Society in the funds
of the State Historical Museum
MUSEOLOGY
Cultural cooperation between Vietnam and Russia in the museum studies in Vietnam (1991–2025)
Publ. 26/11/2025
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
Certificate
of the Mass information mediaregistration:
ЭЛ № ФС 77–60211,
date: 17.12.2014
Frequency
4 issues per year
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