IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY AS A PRINCIPLE OF MODERNIZATION OF THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The purpose of the study. The topic's relevance has been caused by the fact that research on S. Uvarov's ideological heritage was done mainly within the Marxist paradigm from the standpoint of social and class competition for many years. The Soviet historical science argued that imperial education had served the interests of autocracy; therefore, it had adopted the idea of Official Nationality. At the same time, historians quite carefully omitted the fact that S.S. Uvarov had laid the ideological tool for organizing the linguistic and cultural assimilation of the peoples of the Russian Empire. Scientific novelty. There has recently been a tendency to study the complicated bureaucratic and intellectual heritage of S. Uvarov (C.H. Whittaker, R. Wortman, E.D. Dneprov, A. Miller). Such attention has been related to a growing interest of contemporaries in the philosophy of conservatism with the intensification of national processes. The research aims to clarify the content and objectives of Uvarov's conservative and ideological doctrine, which became «an intellectual weapon» of modernization of the educational sphere and part of the domestic imperial national policy. The object of research is the ideological system of the Russian autocracy. The subject is S. Uvarov's intellectual heritage, specifically his Official Nationality program, which provided an algorithm for the «evolutionary» correlation of the ideological foundation of the Russian educational environment for many years. Conclusion. Hence, Uvarov took his place in the history of the empire not just as a talented bureaucrat and reformer of the educational environment but as a politician who tried to emancipate the Russian national consciousness against the background of the imperial ideology, in the key of loyalty to the autocracy. His Triad served to ideologize society to maintain control over the public. Uvarov's proclamation of the Official Nationality program contrasted the uncontrolled spread of materialistic and liberal ideas with a conscious conservative barrier in the form of strengthening bureaucratic regulation in the sphere of education. Within the domestic policy of state nationalism framework, the minister combined «public education» «with the spirit of Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality».