THE MONUMENTAL IMAGE OF THE 20<sup>th</sup> CENTURY: STROKES TO THE PORTRAIT
The author makes an attempt to represent the image of the 20th century through the prism of ideological struggle for the philosophical and semantic strategy of the future mankind. The author aims at analyzing the ideas and philosophical trends in the culture, literature, social and political process of the 20th century. Among the numerous philosophical ideas, the author brings out two major philosophical blocks. These two blocks represent two opposite trends of the world construction of the 20th century. One of these trends is disclosed through the category “monumentalism”. The concept is interpreted in cultural and philosophical terms broadening the existing narrow art history term. On the one hand, the author evolves a principle of a specific perception of events that is called in the article “large-scale”, or “monumental” world perception resulted in an attempt of creating collective social future. On the other hand, the world view “principle of divisibility” is focused on scattered fragments of being not joining into an integral unity. The world views’ opposition between the two concepts - monumental and nonmonumental - that differ in the description of the global development strategy is observed by the author as a basic 20th century conflict. It is outlined in the article that the problem of choosing the global national and international philosophical strategy escalated to the highest degree in the 20th century, which verbally turned people to working out an all-planet development strategy of the 21st century, in the conditions of unprecedented distribution of information technologies. Analyzing the historical and cultural events of the 20th century the author concludes that only monumental world order based on the principle of collective future construction is a requirement to the future development of mankind, thus presenting a fundamental principle of culture development.