THE IDEOLOGY AND SOCIOCULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF RUSSIA: IMAGES OF THE FUTURE STATEHOOD AND CIVILIZATION
The relevance of the study of the problems of the interaction of ideology and culture is due to the entry of humankind into a new era of understanding its own purpose, as evidenced by the planetary anthropogenic catastrophe caused, according to some experts, by the pandemic of the artificial coronavirus, when the fruits of scientific research returned like a boomerang for earthlings. This sociocultural drama has exposed all the flaws of the humanitarian impasse, exacerbated the old and highlighted the new external and internal contradictions at the state and civilizational levels. The globalist world order has led to an imbalance in international relations, and the technosphere is in conflict with the original idea of homo sapiens. In such a fatal situation, the human-creative function of culture comes to the fore. In the domestic mentality, this function acquires the meanings of the Russian idea that is salvific for humanity and is understood as the ideology of the development of statehood and civilization in the historical and cultural context. The aim of this article is an integral analysis of the role and influence of ideology and culture on the processes in the development of society, state and civilization, the determinant of which is the human-making mission of all interacting subjects. The author decodes the cultural and ideological centricity of the aim with meaning-making provisions and tasks facing the fundamental subjects, whose strategic functions are changing taking into account the turbulence of world sociopolitical and economic processes, new challenges and threats facing Russia. In this regard, according to the author, with all the achievements of the scientific and technical process and the technical equipment of a certain society, the main subject that sets the artificial techno-force in motion is homo sapiens, their cultural consistency and civic consciousness. They also remain the main active communicator in the external relations of the changing and transforming world community. Therefore, conspiracy theories about the simulacrum of the posthuman subject and the creation of the image of the posthumanself outside society contradict the cultural nature of humans. The imbalance in international relations, the world economic, sociopolitical and sociocultural crisis, resource depletion of the planet, the pandemic of historical memory, disease and fear to a certain extent deform globalist expansion, thus determining the consolidation of national life within the state framework and the priorities of cultural and civilizational preferences. The novelty of this study is the author's demonstrative attempt to integrate the sociocultural anthropogenic, natural, territorial landscape into the cultural and ideological foundations of Russian statehood and civilization, which reveals the prospects for the historical development of the Eurasian range of peoples. This philosophical and cultural intention of the author is based on the civilizational theories of domestic and a number of foreign researchers, who argued that the peoples of Russia-Eurasia have an ethnocultural and spatial middle continent that has mastered the spiritual and cultural achievements of Eastern and Western civilizations over six centuries and found its original place in history, absorbed the life-giving traditions and values of many ethnic groups and cultures. At the core of this axiocentric place, the author places historical Russia as an axis of world geopolitical balance and geocultural foundation, providing the prospect of human development, subject to the formation of a new state ideology of national development and civilizational community of the Eurasian conglomerate of peoples. The article substantiates not only the provisions of the interacting subjects of society, state, and power, but also proposes the cultural and ideological structure of statehood, coupled with the Russian civilization in the following sequence: national idea - national ideal - national ideology - national development strategy, from which follow concepts, doctrines, programs and projects. The following conclusions are drawn in the article: (1) historical, ideological and sociocultural lessons of the past should be learned in the name of the future of the peoples of Russia and the Eurasian space; (2) the prospects for the development of the Russian landscape with its richest natural, anthropogenic and sociocultural potential, allowing for the development and strengthening of the Eurasian cultural and civilizational identity, are determined; (3) the expediency of defining the foundations of the Russian state ideology, state and national patriotism, coupled with the historical and cultural traditions of peoples, providing their living space and prospects for historical development is updated; (4) measures to optimize domestic policy are proposed: sociocultural, economic, political, spiritual, and moral.