ALEXANDER PANARIN’S CONCEPT UPON THE PROBLEM OF RUSSIAN CIVILIZATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE POSTMODERN SITUATION
This article aims to examine the Alexander Panarin’s views on Russian civilizational identity and to analyze challenges arising from the postmodern way of thinking and acting. For this purpose, we examine concept’s composite elements and study their stability and creative nature. This article shows Panarin’s original solution to the problem of preserving, which lies in the idea of a nation’s special historical mission. Moreover, the differences in values and interests and their role in the identity preservation are present in the article.