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Russian Philosophy :
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Narod
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Narod
An ambiguous term which basically means either ‘nation’ (also rendered by the Russian word natsiya) and, less frequently ‘people’.
1. The narod is identified with the state and narodnost’ becomes a category defining the political and imperial interests of Russia. In the 19th century, this understanding of narodnost’ led to the notion of Belorussian, Ukrainian, even Polish and other Slavonic languages as being mere dialects of the Russian language.
2. The narod is identified with the nobility, as opposed to ‘common people’, and ‘nationality’ is interpreted in terms of culture, as national identity, and yet is determined by the civilized orders of society only.
3. The narod is identified with the people, the peasantry (in contrast to the ‘cosmopolitan’ gentry or intelligentsia) and narodnost’ is conceived as characteristic national features best represented by peasants.
4. The term narod (or natsiya) refers to all social orders and classes of a given geographical region, which constitute one culture, speak one language and have the same religion. Narodnost’ (national identity) is, accordingly, a category defining the characteristic features, the identity of a nation as a whole.
Apart from the official ideology, (S. Uvarov) the tendency to treat ‘nation’ as state was characteristic of those Russian thinkers who shared the ‘legalistic’ world view of the Age of Reason, and also of the Russian followers of Hegel (in Hegel’s philosophy of history ‘state’ was a principal category). Russian Romantics (influenced by Schelling) abandoned the idea of ‘nation as state’ for the sake of the idea of ‘nation as culture’. Later, the notions of ‘nation as culture’ and ‘nation as state’ were merged with Panslavism, Eurasianism and the Soviet ideology.
Andrzej de Lazari (O. E.)
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Ломидзе Г. - Ленинизм и
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Лосский Н. - Характер
русского народа
, 1957 - ( E.M., ) |
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Миронов Б. - Социальная
история России
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Панкратова А. - Великий русский
народ
, Москва 1952 - ( E.M., ) |
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Панкратова А. - Размышления о
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русских: Штрихи
к истории
русского
национального
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Тишков В. - Реквием по
этносу.
Исследования по
социально-культурной
антропологии
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Щукин Ю. - Социалистический
реализм и
советская
эстетическая
мысль
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Chernavskii W. - Tsar and People: Studies in Russian Myths
, New York 1969 - ( A.de L., ) |
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Leighton L. - Narodnost’ as a Concept of Russian Romanticism , // Russian Romanticism: two essays ,
The Hague, Paris 1975 - ( A.de L., ) |
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Szamuely T. - The Russian Tradition
, London 1974 - ( A.de L., ) |
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Аксючиц В. - Русская идея
, „Москва” (7) 1993 - ( E.M., ) |
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