T. Orlova, Doctor of history, Professor

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2017.135.4.08

PUTIN'S RUSSIA: CAUSES OF ARCHAIZATION

Developments in contemporary Russia make up involution, that is, moving in the reverse direction of progress. In social and humanitarian discourse this process is characterized as "archaization". Putin's Russia manifests not only the government's orientation but that of the majority of people exactly at archaization as an option of accommodating to circumstances of crisis. Its reasons are caused by many factors, past and present, based on the Russian civilizational code. Traditionalism and hostility to the complications of modernization are deeply ingrained into it. Eventually, archaization may bury Putin's system.

Key words: Russia, civilization, modernization, archaization, crisis.

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