Title Tautinio identiteto transformacijos postsocialistinėje visuomenėje: Rusijos atvejis /
Translation of Title Transformation of national identity in post socialist society: the case of Russia.
Authors Barzelis, Aidanas
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Is Part of Acta humanitarica universitatis Saulensis: Regionas: laikas, erdvė, žmonės.. Šiauliai : VšĮ Šiaulių universiteto leidykla. 2012, t. 14, p. 443-450.. ISSN 1822-7309
Keywords [eng] Russia ; identity ; Nicholas Trubeckoi ; eurasianism ; civilization ; politics
Abstract [eng] This paper analyses the theoretical approaches of the concept of “identity”, which refers to the “historisation” of public life. It is argued that throughout the history people can recognize and interpret social life and people’s behaviour is affected by the projections, expectations and memories arising from a broad and defined social, cultural, and historical field in which they are available. While studying the identity of Russian society, the Soviet period is analyzed, in which a national identification was characterized by vertical interaction (human – Soviet government) by levelling down horizontal identity types like ethnic, religious, regional. It is believed that the transformation of Russian to Soviet identity in the nineteenth century overcame the crisis of imperial Russian identity, but almost completely destroyed week ethnic identity layer. The main representatives of the Eurasian concept that had a huge influence in forming the theoretical background to Russian identity were Nicholas Danilevsky (1822-1885), Nicholas Trubeckoi (1890-1938), and Lev Gumiliov (1912-1992). This article emphasizes the ideas of Trubeckoi and his opinion that Western civilization is the greatest enemy of all mankind and the greatest obstacle for the formation of other civilizations and cultures identity. Finally the real, contemporary Russian political steps are analysed which reflected the answers of the Russian identity issue. Vladimir Putin re-established the czarist and Soviet eras’ symbols in this way searching for “useful history” that would unite the nation by appealing to the nostalgia. A key trend that is followed is Russia’s desire to emphasize that it manages its own affairs and that the West has no right to dictate the direction of democracy or Russia identity development.
Published Šiauliai : VšĮ Šiaulių universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2012