Russian version of cultural federalism

Aleksei G Pudov,Maria I Koryakina

doi:10.34069/ai/2022.50.02.9

Abstract

This article proposes a vision of the idea of “cultural federalism” contributing to the stability of ethnic culture in the era of assimilation by mass culture and global unification, revitalizing the meanings of modernity, enriching the multinational synergy of Russian culture, overcoming capitalist alienation and disintegration of multiculturalism. Methods of analysis and comparison are used in ethnocultural dynamics, mastering such symbolic conquests as “federalism” in the paradigm of modernity, which fits into the process of ethnocultural modernization. The novelty of the work lies in the substantiation of the concept of cultural federalism vs ethnic federalism, as the most appropriate for the modern cultural situation in Russia, the cultural capital of which is multinational and, accordingly, the effect of “Russian multiculturalism” that can oppose secession with an integration trend, reanimate the cooperative effect of the interaction of cultural programs, their complementarity. The authors are interested in the dialectical self-development of historical and cultural differences of the subjects of the federation entering the era of natural modernization, reflected in the ethnic cultural renaissance of the present. The idea of cultural federalism contributes to the development of the Russian national idea, the absence of which reduces the effect of national consolidation and socio-economic development. It is proposed as a tool for solving the problem of "sleeping federalism" and the dialectical contradiction between the form and content of the present state of ethnic federalism.

Highlights

The twentieth century inscribed in history by the flourishing of ideas of federalism
The fundamental symbolic nature of the construct “federalism” has not yet found an adequate cultural form of implementation that clarifies the original metaphysical meaning, which negatively affects the socio-political interaction of the subjects of the federation and the federal center in need of socio-cultural modernization, taking into account the historical and cultural capital of multinational Russia in the context of assimilation of national and ethnic cultures by mass culture and the processes of socio-cultural globalization during the transformation of the world capitalist paradigm
Russia has maintained its multinationality, “Russian multiculturalism”, the basis of which was not isolationism, but mutual enrichment based on Russian culture

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Introduction

The twentieth century inscribed in history by the flourishing of ideas of federalism. It was the time when absolute monarchies lost their historical perspectives. The fundamental symbolic nature of the construct “federalism” has not yet found an adequate cultural form of implementation that clarifies the original metaphysical meaning, which negatively affects the socio-political interaction of the subjects of the federation and the federal center in need of socio-cultural modernization, taking into account the historical and cultural capital of multinational Russia in the context of assimilation of national and ethnic cultures by mass culture and the processes of socio-cultural globalization during the transformation of the world capitalist paradigm

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