Strengthening of national identity as a significant factor in the well‐being of Russian society

Abstract

Relevance. The increasing processes of glocalization in the modern world lead to the emphasis on the uniqueness of each national‐state community that actualizes the appeal to the ways of strengthening self‐ identity. Methods. Historical‐cultural and historical‐philosophical approaches, methodology of interpretation and reconstruction of cultural phenomena as actualizations of mental core of this culture. Aim. To identify the main mechanisms of the crystallization of Russian identity. Results. The article shows that the main mechanism for strengthening national identity is the relevance of actions in the "challenge–response" system in the space of intercultural and interstate interaction. The latter is based on the prohibition of irony over fundamental spiritual, moral and state values, on comprehension the role of the mental dominants of understanding, absolutism, conciliarity, kindness as system‐forming Russian and, subsequently, sovereign Russian culture, on the awareness of their relative variability in civilizational change, their functioning as filters that set the degree of perception and transformation of cultural‐civilizational phenomena in the space of interaction between the states‐cultures. Another mechanism for strengthening national dignity is a clear realization of the greatness of our centuries‐old history, the role of Orthodoxy as the basis of national self‐identity and statehood, implemented in accordance with the following logic: one faith – one people – one land – one state.

Keywords

• culture
• civilization
• national identity
• mental dominants of understanding
• absolutism
• conciliarity