Russia and Ukraine in the civilizational dimension

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  • Petr Ya. Tsitkilov Southern Federal University, 105/42, ul. Bol’shaya Sadovaya, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russian Federation https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7540-0231

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2024.311

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the problem of civilizational belonging of the Russian Federation and modern Ukraine. Its author conducted a theoretical understanding of civilizational specificity based on consideration of various scientific concepts. In this article, a scientific analysis of the topic under consideration was carried out using such methodological approaches as normative-value, sociocultural and historical. This made it possible to determine the essential side of the civilizational perception of the world. The work shows that it is the cultural and value originality of the people (peoples), united by historical destiny, spiritual and religious complementarity and a common semantic aspiration. This approach made it possible to justify the belonging of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples to a single Eurasian-all-Russian civilization. It has significant differences compared to Western civilization. If in the West the most important value principles are individualism and the absolutization of the understanding of freedom, then for the Eurasian-all-Russian civilizational world it is the striving for justice, for a collective, solidary and spiritual perception of life. Modern Russia and most of present-day Ukraine have historically developed in a common civilizational field, the core of which is Holy Rus'. In the conditions of modern military confrontation in Ukraine, the need for our peoples to understand their spiritual unity, cultural affinity and common historical destiny is of particular importance. All this has been formed over centuries, enriching Russians and Ukrainians through their mutual linguistic penetration, literary influence, similarity of self-knowledge, revelations of the Holy Fathers of Orthodoxy. The key to overcoming the current military confrontation is our common cultural and spiritual roots, as well as the historical community of the Fatherland.

Keywords:

civilizational concepts, Eurasian-all-Russian and Western civilizational worlds, civilizational unity of Russia and Ukraine

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Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Философия и конфликтология

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2024-12-30

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Tsitkilov, P. Y. (2024). Russia and Ukraine in the civilizational dimension. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 40(3), 499–512. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2024.311

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Vol. 40 No. 3 (2024): Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies

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