Russian civilization explained

Russian civilization should not be confused with Culture of Russia.

The Russian civilization (Русская цивилизация) is a purported civilization formed by Russians^{[1] [2]} governed by the claimed "Russian world" (ru|Русский мир), used as a concept in Russian nationalism and Russian irredentism.

Definitions

The concept takes on a different meaning depending on the author:

• according to Philip Bagby, it is one of the peripheral civilizations.^[3]
• others, such as professor Vladimir Nikolayevich Leksin, consider it a myth.^[4]
• According to Samuel Huntington, there is no such thing as a Russian civilization. In his view, Russian culture is a part of an Eastern Orthodox civilization.
• Toynbee regarded the Russian civilization as having modest cultural achievements, but as something complete, Danilevsky and Spengler described it more as a phenomenon of the future,^[5] the latter believed that government reform of Peter the Great did not meet the traditions of a Russian civilization.^[6]
• Plekhanov and Berdyaev believed that a Russian civilization occupies a border position between East and West. Solovyov believed that the mission of a Russian civilization in the unification of East and West, and the Eurasianists consider it as some third force.^[7]
• Some consider communism alien to traditional Russian values, others believe that the USSR was a natural continuation of a traditional Russian civilization.^{[1] [8]} Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality is similar to communist partijnost (party-mindedness, partisanship), idejnost (ideology-mindedness) and populism.^[9]
• Researcher Rumyana Cholakova (Washington University in St. Louis) considers Russian civilization to be amalgamation of Slavic culture, Tatar culture, Finno-Ugric culture, Viking culture and the Great Steppe culture of its inhabitants. According to her, the concept of Russian soul is central to Russian civilization.^[10]

See also

• Russian world
• All-Russian nation
• Civilizing mission
• Culture of Russia
• Culture of the Soviet Union
• Russian soul
• Russification
• Russian imperialism

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Notes and References

1. Web site: М. Н. Свистунов . РОССИЙСКАЯ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИЯ И ПРАВОСЛАВИЕ: ДИАЛЕКТИКА ИХ ВЗАИМООТНОШЕНИЙ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ РАЗВИТИЯ . Russian civilisation and Orthodoxy: the dialectic of their mutual relationships and prospects of development . ru . mosgu.ru . . 2020-02-26. 'Русская цивилизация' — это характеристика цивилизации по основополагающему, коренному народу, ее создавшему - русскому народу, всегда составляющему подавляющее большинство населения страны [Translation: 'Russian civilisation is the characteristic of a civilisation according to the underlying native people which has founded it - the Russian people, which has always constituted the overwhelming majority of the population of the country]..
2. Лексин Владимир Николаевич . Русская цивилизация и русский народ . Журнал Института Наследия . Журнал Института Наследия . 2018 . 2 . 13 . 2 .
3. Book: Харченко Л. Н. . Природа и цивилизация. Профильное обучение. 10–11 классы . 2014 . Directmedia . 91–92. 978-5446098354.
4. Web site: Владимир Лексин . Русская цивилизация: феномен или фантом? . ru . 2018-01-11 . 2020-02-24.
5. Book: A. L. Kroeber . Checklist of Civilizations and Culture . 2011 . Transaction Publishers . 53. 978-1412818537.
6. Горелов Анатолий Алексеевич . Ф. М. Достоевский: русская идея и русский социализм . Знание. Понимание. Умение . Знание. Понимание. Умение . 2017 . 1. 50–66 .
7. Кривопусков Владимир Викторович . Цивилизационные идентичности Запада и Востока: место и роль "Русского мира" . Гуманитарий Юга России . Гуманитарий Юга России . 2016 . 20 . 4. 224–235 .
8. Book: Vadim Joseph Rossman . Russian Intellectual Antisemitism in the Post-Communist Era . 2002 . U of Nebraska Press . 102. 0803239483.
9. Book: Yuri Glazov . The Russian Mind Since Stalin's Death . 2012 . Springer Science & Business Media . 222. 978-9400953413.
10. Cholakova. Rumyana. 2009-01-01. Chinese Spirit, Russian Soul, and American Materialism: Images of America in Twentieth-Century Chinese and Russian Travelogues. All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). 10.7936/K79G5JVK.