Identity Thus Russian
Finding that all-encompassing Russian Federation identity, however, requires Russia as a whole to confront its history honestly – and bravely. It will then have a …
Contemporary multiculturalism goes back to the Russian intellectual search for non-European national identity. 2. The Russian synthesis of philosophy and religion, the phenomenon of "religious philosophy," is unique in the history of thought.
An underdeveloped identity is a key factor in understanding Russia’s foreign and domestic policies. Twenty-five years have passed since the dissolution of the USSR; yet, the post-Soviet national character remains undetermined. Finding and strengthening national identity really is fundamental for Russia, Vladimir Putin recently consented.
Only Connect: Russia between Individualism and Collectivism By Anna Arutunyan As Russian communities grapple with historical baggage, they are on their way to creating a real national identity.
However, in Russia there were also supporters of an ethnographic Great Russian (Velikoruss) identity, according to whom the territory and the dominant culture of the empire was the sole preserve of the ethnic Russian majority.
NATIONAL IDENTITY IN RUSSIAN CULTURE WhatisRussia?WhoareRussians?Whatis“Russianness”?Theques-tionofnationalidentityhaslongbeenavexedoneinRussia,andis
The nuance here is that the very structure of Russian identity is basically ambivalent. It is a matter of having a mentality of a country that is catching up to modernization, a country that is failing to develop a market economy and become democratic and open. They are integrated in the West and, thus, associated with the West. Regarding
Russia’s centuries-old struggle for national identity mirrors similar pursuits by virtually every individual and body of people since humanity began. Our identity, whether personal or collective, is perhaps our most treasured and guarded possession.
Thus only one-fifth of the respondents firmly believed in the survival of Belarusian identity under current conditions. Overall, however, the situation required further insight. Upon asking my Minsk correspondents orally and by e-mail whether maintaining Belarusian identity while speaking Russian was possible, I encountered two reactions:
Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Valery Fedorov, Director General, Russian Public Opinion Research Center VTsIOM, Sergei Chapnin, Executive Editor, Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate, Secretary of the Commission of the Inter-Council Board of the Russian Orthodox Church on Church, State and Society.
