Russian traditionalism as a principle of Russian modernization

Abstract

The article focuses on the role of Russian traditionalism in the formation of national identity in Russia and especially its actualization from a historical perspective. Based on the ideas of N. Danilevsky and KN Leontiev, the author defends the thesis that the logic of national reality expresses its structural contents. This is the essence of the national tradition whose stability is set out as productive interaction through, on the one hand, conditional objective factors (natural) and, on the other, relatively subjective (mental, moral) factors. And if the first, being passive, is tradition, the second, its activity, is determined. The article stresses that any self-knowledge is an expression of active attitude of the people in the first case to itself through correlation of the activity (its goals and forms) with the objective order of things. The Russian-Russian understanding can be understood as the identification of stable, reproducible regularly, structural relationships in their natural and artificial relativity. Refs 7.