Russian Identity: Searching for Definition and Distribution Dynamics

Occupation: Chief Researcher, Head of the Center for the Study of Interethnic Relations; Professor-researcher
Affiliation:
Institute of Sociology of FCTAS RAS
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya

Edition

Issue 8

Pages

37-50

Abstract

The article is devoted to the formation of all-Russian identity in an ethno-cultural complex society. The article analyzes the main debates in the scientific and socio-political community about the understanding of integrating identity. Changes in its interpretation in the «Strategy of state national policy for the period up to 2025» and competing interpretations of all-Russian identity during the discussion of the amendments to the Constitution of 1993 are shown.

On the basis of the most representative Russian studies – Russian monitoring of the economic situation and public health (RLMS-HSE), Institute of Sociology FCTAS RAS and FADN-WCIOM, author shows development of all-Russian national identity in the 2000th, main socio-demographic profiles of people who have actualized national identity, their focus on interethnic consent and trust. The author argues for the compatibility of all-Russian and ethnic identity under the condition of their non-hyperbolization. It is proved that the interpretation of integrating identity as all-Russian civic identity has a basis in the everyday experience of people. At the same time, this identity is dynamic, it depends on the political and social conditions of the country. Ideas about citizenship, language, territory, history, and cultural community are changeable, not differentiated, and nominal for some in the population. Efforts are required from the state and society to form and get their approval through education, media space and public activity.

Keywords

Russian identity, state identity, national identity, ethnic identity, interethnic consent, ethnocultural complex society, Russian state nation

Acknowledgment

The paper was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research via grant No. 20-011-00241.

Received

27.04.2020

Publication date

15.09.2020

Number of characters

38579

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GOST	Drobizheva L. Russian Identity: Searching for Definition and Distribution Dynamics // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2020. – Issue 8 C. 37-50 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250009460-9-1-en (circulation date: 25.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250009460-9
MLA	Drobizheva, Leokadia "Russian Identity: Searching for Definition and Distribution Dynamics." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 8 (2020):37-50. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250009460-9
APA	Drobizheva L. (2020). Russian Identity: Searching for Definition and Distribution Dynamics. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (8), pp.37-50 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250009460-9

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