Russia’s civilizational identity: War and world

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of identity of modern Russia. Since the end of the twentieth century, Russia has been in the process of an identity crisis. The Russian Federation, which abandoned the communist ideology and the regime of Soviet power, made attempts to build a European identity in a single civilizational space with the West. Russia’s acquisition of its identity implied an ongoing process of abandoning its integrity and more fundamental identities than ideology and regime. According to the Western model, Russia should dissolve nations “in a single cauldron”, or divide into many states according to their national identity. In this project, Russia is assigned the role of a regional state that performs the function of a raw material appendage of the West in the international system of division of labor, dominated by foreign capital. The history of Russia over the past three hundred years shows that national, civil identity is limited to the potential for its development. Eurasian civilizational identity explains the peculiarities of the unity and integrity of Russia. The political and civilizational Eurasian identity of Russia allows it to develop successfully, through the inevitable intertwining and unity of contradictions that make up its content.