Solidarization of Russian Society: a Historiographical Analysis

Introduction. At present the relevance of the problem of solidarity of Russian society is   associated with the attempts of the countries of the Greater West to solve accumulated   problems through building an image of the enemy, which makes it possible to consolidate   national economies and effectively fight opposition forces within the country. In modern   Russian philosophy, a number of approaches to developing the concept of solidarity of   Russian society have developed. Despite this, many aspects of this problem still remain   insufficiently studied. Thus, this study analyzes various approaches to defining the solidarity   of society, which were formed in Russian philosophy; identifies the essential properties of   solidarity, and substantiates the thesis about the need to form new tools and mechanisms   of social order that will allow for the solidarity of society. The purpose of the presented   research is a historiographic analysis of the concept of solidarity in relation to Russian reality.  

 Methodology and sources. The methodological basis of this study is the principle of unity   of the historical and logical, as well as methods of analysis and synthesis. There were used   as sources the works of classics of Russian philosophical thought who developed the   concept of solidarity (I.S. Aksakov, N.Ya. Danilevsky, etc.), as well as the works of modern   Russian thinkers, such as Yu.V. Shkudunova, A.A. Efanov, allowing to identify the main   aspects of the problem of solidarity of Russian society.

  Results and discussion. The authors of this article conducted a historiographical analysis   of the concept of “solidarization”. During the analysis, the main essential properties of   solidarity were identified, such as procedurality, value orientation, ideology, and complexity.   The relevance of the traditions of Russian religious philosophy for the development of the   problem of solidarity is also shown. The authors consider the solidarity of society as a set of   political, economic and sociocultural processes aimed at uniting society around an integral   system of values expressed by a single social ideology.

  Conclusion. The modern world is in a phase of political turbulence, which has a direct   impact on all fundamental aspects of society. Their impact can be seen especially clearly in   the example of Russian reality. In these conditions, the survival of Russia depends on the   degree of unity of society as a guarantee of national security. 

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