Russian civilization in the focus of attention

Abstract

The review examines monographs on Russian civilization published in 2022–2024. The authors understand that in the modern world, the concept of Russian civilization has become iconic. Special attention is paid to philosophical and theoretical concepts that in­terpret the empyria of Russia’s civilizational development from a new angle.

When characterizing the specifics of Russian civilization, attention is paid more to the ge­ographical factor than to the ethnic substrate. The article emphasizes the civilizational value of Orthodoxy in the struggle for the identity of Russia and the future of mankind. The authors expand the usual horizons of understanding the phenomenon of civilization by means of a biosphere interpretation of its praphenomenon, differentiation of the infer­nal and sacred in the civilization development. The interpretation of Crimea as a cultural paradigm of Russian civilization is original.

The problems of Russian civilizationistics are the insufficient empirical groundlessness of judgments, the abstract conceptualization of empiricism, the incompleteness of a com­parative analysis of Russia with other civilizations, the lack of reflection of cumulative­ness and continuity in personal scientific creativity.