Russian civilization

The concept takes on a different meaning depending on the author:

according to Philip Bagby, it is one of the peripheral civilizations.^[3]
others, such as professor Vladimir Nikolayevich Leksin, consider it a myth.^[4]
According to Samuel Huntington, there is no such thing as a Russian civilization. In his view, Russian culture is a part of an Eastern Orthodox civilization.
Toynbee regarded the Russian civilization as having modest cultural achievements, but as something complete, Danilevsky and Spengler described it more as a phenomenon of the future,^[5] the latter believed that government reform of Peter the Great did not meet the traditions of a Russian civilization.^[6]
Plekhanov and Berdyaev believed that a Russian civilization occupies a border position between East and West. Solovyov believed that the mission of a Russian civilization in the unification of East and West, and the Eurasianists consider it as some third force.^[7]
Some^{[clarification needed]} consider communism alien to traditional Russian values, others believe that the USSR was a natural continuation of a traditional Russian civilization.^[1]^[8] Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality is similar to communist partijnost' (party-mindedness, partisanship), idejnost' (ideology-mindedness) and populism.^[9]
Researcher Rumyana Cholakova (Washington University in St. Louis) considers Russian civilization to be amalgamation of Slavic culture, Tatar culture, Finno-Ugric culture, Viking culture and the Great Steppe culture of its inhabitants. According to her, the concept of Russian soul is central to Russian civilization.^[10]

Russian civilization

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