Updating of identity: national traditions and cultural values in modern Russia
The crisis situation in the sphere of spiritual life in Russia, which had arisen at the end of the last century, has not been overcome to the present time. The task of «educating a harmoniously developed and socially responsible person on the basis of spiritual and moral values of the peoples of the Russian Federation, historical and national and cultural traditions» is included in the list of priorities of modern state policy. But there are a number of obstacles in the way of solving this problem. One of them is the fractionality of national consciousness resulting from the failure of the socialist experience and the shock of the reformation conflict at the end of the twentieth century. Situation is exacerbated by the conflict of generations, complicating the work of the mechanisms of vertical transmission of traditions and values inside the mixed-age communities. In itself, the conflict of generations is natural, but regarding the circumstances of its formation in modern Russia, aggravated by the speed of development of technologies that change all spheres of life, it can become a tangible problem. The development of a common ideological denominator for a multiethnic, multi-confessional and multicultural Russia that has already experienced the «temptation of liberalism» is an extremely difficult task. In modern researches it is reasonably stated that traditional values today face threats of different nature. Russia should combine the protection of its own national traditions and values from external threats with the preservation of the ability to perceive all progressive changes and generate new values. Success in solving the challenges facing it in the formation of a consolidating national worldview will largely depend on what kind of content will the humanitarian knowledge that permeates all levels of education be.