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Социокультурный феномен "русского северянства" (2021)

Abstract

This paper reviews the works of A. A. Kara Murza on the phenomenon of "Russian Northernism" published in 2016 2020. This phenomenon is presented as a literary and philo sophical trend, a semi official state doctrine and ideology, and a historiosophical paradigm iden tifing Russia as a northern civilization. Russian Northernism is the product of interiorization of the external geophilosophical reflec tion correcting the prior image of Russia as an Asian state. The foundations of the Northernist discourse were formulated in the works of A. D. Kantemir and M. V. Lomonosov. In the pre revolutionary Russian culture the Northernist intentions were supported by references to Ossian ism and Ibsenism, Northern Romanticism, Northern Classicism and Northern Modernism.