Russian civilization

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

• according to [https://philpapers.org/s/Philip%20Bagby Philip Bagby], it is one of the peripheral civilizations.{{cite book| author = Харченко Л. Н. | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UOBSBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA91 | title = Природа и цивилизация. Профильное обучение. 10–11 классы |date = 2014 |publisher= Directmedia | pages = 91–92| isbn = 978-5446098354}}
• others, such as professor Vladimir Nikolayevich Leksin, consider it a myth.{{cite web |author=Владимир Лексин |url=http://rusrand.ru/analytics/russkaya-civilizaciya-fenomen-ili-fantom |title=Русская цивилизация: феномен или фантом? |lang=ru |date=2018-01-11 |access-date=2020-02-24}}
• 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,{{cite book| author = A. L. Kroeber | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DUYlMFTryN4C&pg=PA53 | title = Checklist of Civilizations and Culture |date = 2011 |publisher= Transaction Publishers | pages = 53| isbn = 978-1412818537}} the latter believed that government reform of Peter the Great did not meet the traditions of a Russian civilization.{{cite journal |author = Горелов Анатолий Алексеевич |url= https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/f-m-dostoevskiy-russkaya-ideya-i-russkiy-sotsializm |title= Ф. М. Достоевский: русская идея и русский социализм |journal= Знание. Понимание. Умение |edition= Знание. Понимание. Умение |year= 2017 |number= 1|pages= 50–66 }}
• 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.{{cite journal |author = Кривопусков Владимир Викторович |url= https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/tsivilizatsionnye-identichnosti-zapada-i-vostoka-mesto-i-rol-russkogo-mira |title= Цивилизационные идентичности Запада и Востока: место и роль "Русского мира" |journal= Гуманитарий Юга России |edition= Гуманитарий Юга России |year= 2016 |volume= 20 |number= 4|pages= 224–235 }}
• Some{{clarify|date=April 2022}} consider communism alien to traditional Russian values, others believe that the USSR was a natural continuation of a traditional Russian civilization.{{cite book| author = Vadim Joseph Rossman | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pF-I25OC5ugC&pg=PA102 | title = Russian Intellectual Antisemitism in the Post-Communist Era |date = 2002 |publisher= U of Nebraska Press | pages = 102| isbn = 0803239483}} Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality is similar to communist partijnost{{'}} (party-mindedness, partisanship), idejnost{{'}} (ideology-mindedness) and populism.{{cite book| author = Yuri Glazov | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5ehhBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA222 | title = The Russian Mind Since Stalin's Death |date = 2012 |publisher= Springer Science & Business Media | pages = 222| isbn = 978-9400953413}}
• 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.{{Cite journal|last=Cholakova|first=Rumyana|date=2009-01-01|title=Chinese Spirit, Russian Soul, and American Materialism: Images of America in Twentieth-Century Chinese and Russian Travelogues|url=https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/65|journal=All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)|volume=|pages=|doi=10.7936/K79G5JVK|via=}}

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

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