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Article name National-state identity of Russians: specifics of symbolic foundations
Authors Titov V.. candidate of political science department, senior researcher, VVTitov@fa.ru
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Category Politology
DOI 323
DOI 10.21209/2227-9245-2020-26-5-37-43
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Annotation The presented study is devoted to the symbolic foundations’ specifics of the national-state identity of modern Russians. The research methodology is based on a combination of descriptive political and structural analysis. The theoretical foundation of the work is formed through the synthesis of such concepts’ elements as “invention of traditions” and “imaginary communities”. The author comes to the conclusion that the national-state identity of Russians is characterized by such signs as lacunarity, disproportion in terms of the representation of chronological images (against the background of the lack of an image of the future, there is a pronounced accentuation of the collective past), a conflict between groups of symbols that form a memory policy narrative, ambiguity of perception of “significant others” and presence of conflict in the framework of positioning the same symbols at different levels of identity. The probable reasons for the formation of the indicated specificity are the lack of a strategic and systematic approach to the identity policy formation, opportunistic nature of the latter, ignoring during its planning such factors as the influence of external “soft power” and development of alternative political discourse in the social media
Key words national-state identity; symbol; image of the past; image of the future; “significant others”; “invention of traditions”; “imaginary communities”; political technologies; political myth; politics of memory; Soviet tradition
Article information Titov V. National-state identity of Russians: specifics of symbolic foundations // Transbaikal State University Journal, 2020, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 37–43. DOI: 10.21209/2227-9245-2020-26-5-37-43.
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