printRussian Identity as a Problem of Historical Dynamics
Trubitsyn D.V.
Dr. Sci. (Philos.), Prof., Transbaikalian State University, Chita, Russia dvtrubitsyn@yandex.ru
Trubitsyn D.V. Russian Identity as a Problem of Historical Dynamics. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2025. No 1. P. 96-112
The paper is based on the analysis of works focusing on Russian identity and reveals conceptual framework and tendencies in the dynamics of research: the predomination of holistic approach to the scientific analysis, as well as its vertical (top-down) development strategy. Only a small number of works is devoted to personality problems connected with self-identification. Some contradictions have been found between statements about positive dynamics of all- Russian identity and the data on the growth of anxiety and mistrust, or misalignment of mass behaviour with claimed values). The research, conducted in terms of social stability of a macrosystem, enabled to draw some conclusions about prospects of this type of identity for preserving the integrity of the country. “Consolidation” can only be achieved in the short term in such a way. In the long term, this strategy may reproduce an unstable type of identity that only assumes formal recognition of the state as “one’s own”. Suppression of the subjective principle in identity choice makes this strategy prospectless: it may form an explosive “counter- identity” that threatens to cancel itself. A particular problem is that national identity is substantively connected with the state so there appears the danger of disintegration in case of a deep crisis. Theoretically, identity is interpreted as a social relation, and its study demands not only the use of social surveys, but also the analysis of the social structures dynamics.
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