Художественная жизнь Северной Осетии в условиях социально-политических и экономических изменений (1991–2001 гг.)

Abstract

Introduction. The reforming of the state structure in the early 90s of the XX century affected all spheres of social life in Russia, which largely determined the vector of further development of artistic culture. Artistic culture is the area that reflects and rethinks the transformational and crisis phenomena in any state. The relevance of the study is conditioned by the recognition of the state cultural policy as an integral part of the national security strategy of the Russian Federation. Undoubtedly, artistic life requires careful study in order to analyze the state cultural policy and the implementation of historical reality in the ethno-cultural component. The novelty of the study is that for the first time the problem revealing regional features of artistic culture is covered with the involvement of an array of archival documents and periodical press materials of North Ossetia. The reference to the relatively past period allows us to identify and formulate key problems, as well as tasks that are relevant in modern society for timely solution. Materials and Methods. The article, based on archival documents and periodicals, examines the artistic life of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania from 1991 to 2001 through the prism of regional specifics of all-Russian processes. Using retrospective and historical-comparative methods, the author has identified the main directions of the artistic life in the republic, as well as the key problems that hindered its qualitative development in the region. Analysis. Historically, in different periods, state authorities have used artistic culture to form priority value and moral orientations. Cultural policy and artistic life in the USSR were characterised by the predominant influence of the public sector. With the collapse of the USSR the former mechanisms of regulation of cultural and other spheres of life were destroyed. The new Russian state faced with the task of creating and shaping renewed cultural, moral and ethical values both in the country as a whole and in multi-ethnic and multi-confessional regions. North Ossetia-Alania is a multi-ethnic republic, so the priority task in the sphere of culture was the need to preserve and develop the foundations of traditional cultural values. Artistic life as the functioning of the system of artistic culture, which includes various types of activities for the production, dissemination, assimilation of artistic values, is one of the key components in the formation of the modern Russian state and society. Results. As a result of the study, the author came to the conclusion that the development of culture in the studied period had a spontaneous and contradictory character, and the artistic life was vulnerable in the conditions of socio-economic and political changes in the country.