UDC 37
DOI: 10.36871/hon.202501006
Authors
Natalia A. Vinokurova,
Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
Olga M. Tabachnikova,
University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom
Abstract
This article shows how the ideas of Russian students about the public and the personal are changing, how the role of individualism in the life strategies of young people is growing, and why this is dangerous not only for the development of a healthy society, but above all for the bearers of this new ideology for Russia, which is inextricably linked to the processes of globalisation. In our study, we trace the connection between such semantic and value shifts in the worldview of Russian youth and the warnings heard in Russian classical literature, and above all in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky a century and a half ago — about the threat of a narrowly rational worldview, about reason detached from its moral foundations (in Dostoevsky’s words, about the rule of the man-god instead of the God-man). Noting the inextricable connection between ethics and aesthetics, we conclude on the importance of artistic education as the most effective means in the struggle for the minds of Russian students. Our research is based on the results of our own sociological surveys of Russian youth in recent years (conducted in seventeen universities in six Russian cities) as well as on the research of other scholars.
Keywords
Russian students, globalisation, individualism, sociological survey, artistic education
