Russian civilizational project in terms of political ideology

Abstract

The article criticizes the state strategy of “deideologizing” the institutions of the country’s political management, adopted in the Russian Federation in the 1990s; it analyzes the in­ternal inconsistency of this strategy and supports the opinion of many prominent re­searchers about the indestructibility of the ideological phenomenon as a fundamental ele­ment of modern societies life. It is noted that ideologies can arise and develop sponta­neously, at the grassroots level, without the participation of government and other author­ities. Adoption of these theoretical provisions significantly affects the understanding of the place and role of ideologies in the life of civilizations. Fundamental mutual under­standing is recorded in this aspect between philosophers representing different types of modern societies. In theoretical circles, first come methods that make it possible to ad­equately rethink the inclusion of interdisciplinary principle in the “fabric” of civiliza­tional studies, with particular attention to the innovative potential of this concept. Ideol­ogy, as a phenomenon affecting a wide variety of aspects of societies life, recognizes multidimensional/multidisciplinary nature of its functioning. Making a civilizational project is impossible without simultaneously studying the historical reality of developing civilizations, adding their own cultural and historical boundaries on structures; it is due to the awareness of “the subject’s history” that a philosophical vision of the whole arises – one without which the project cannot gain value-symbolic goal-orientation. For example, the history of Russian culture (both literary, artistic and political) allows us to talk about its resistance to the extremes of Western individualism and create our own pic­ture of the world, taking into account this and other features.