Russian State University for the Humanities

About: Russian State University for the Humanities is a education organization based out in Moscow, Russia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Computer science & Population. The organization has 384 authors who have published 541 publications receiving 4658 citations. The organization is also known as: RSUH & RGGU.

“About a Symbol”: Genesis and Parallels. Article Two. Dostoevsky as a Symbolist

Abstract: The article is devoted to the literary and philosophical origins of Sergei Durylin’s report “On a Symbol in Dostoevsky” (the report was read in 1926 at a meeting of the Commission for the Study of Dostoevsky at the Literary Section of GAKhN). The history of the report in the context of the Literary Section is considered. Аbstracts and debates on the report are published for the first time. The relationship of Durylin’s ideas with the complex of Dostoevsky’s interpretations, developed by both the Symbolists (G.I. Chulkov) and Russian religious philosophers (P.A. Florensky, A.F. Losev) is shown. Both the report “On a Symbol in Dostoevsky’s” and the subsequent report “Landscape in Dostoevsky’s” are devoted to an anthropological and Christological story, connected with the symbolism of the setting sun, the symbolism of “oblique rays”, and its embodiment in Dostoevsky’s novels. Both texts are a continuation and a development of the same theme. A landscape is an artist’s mapping of nature, the created world; interiors are the artist’s image of the anthropomorphic world, the human space. The ontological symbol receives its sociocultural projection: a landscape or an interior. The problem of the relationship between the mapping/image and the object of the image, the problem of the ontological status of reality and its embodiment in the artistic/mythopoetic language, reflected in the report, corresponded to the focus of GAKhN on the development of a new “language of things” and a new concept of the humanitarian knowledge. The article is timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of F.M. Dostoevsky, the 135th anniversary of S.N. Durylin, and the 100th anniversary of GAKhN.

The role of Russian mass media in the system of communicative relations between the state and society. Review of Markov, E.A. Rossiiskaya vlast' i SMI: istoriya informatsionnogo vzaimodeistviya: monografiya [Russian authorities and mass media: the history of information interaction: a monograph]. Moscow: RUSAINS, 2021.

Abstract: The proposed work analyzes a monograph published in 2021 by Evgenii A. Markov, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor of the Department of Social Communications and Media of Cherepovets State University. In the monograph, he made an attempt to explain the role and importance of the mass media in the communication system “the State – Mass Media – Society.” The importance of the work under review lies in a comprehensive insight into the problems of transformation of communicative and informational relations between the state and society as well as factors that influenced the formation of the present-day system of interaction between the authorities and society, which generally allows not only seeing the ongoing political processes in proper perspective but also predicting their further development. The author’s research interest has been associated with this problem for quite a while, and he devoted his new work to identifying the origins, traditions, and modern trends that influence the process of communicative interaction between the government institutions, mass media, and society in modern Russia.

Cultural and Historical Attitudes of Students of Humanitarian and Technical Specializations (Part 2)

Abstract: The article is devoted to the study of cultural and historical attitudes of students. The attitudes of students to the period of existence, causes and consequences of the collapse of the USSR as the main topic are investigated. The study used two versions of the questionnaire developed for this purpose: an abbreviated one, containing 14 questions and expanded version based on it, containing 50 questions. The expanded version of the questionnaire in particular allowed to obtain data on students perception of the problem of the existence of the people as a cultural and historical phenomenon, the problem of the existence of sovereign countries, democracy, the possibility of creating a union world state and a number of others. The article presents the results concerning the connection of cultural and historical attitudes of students with their socio-demographic characteristics.