Vitalii Vasilev
Interregional Institute of Economics and Law, Russia
In the current socio-political situation it is getting more and more urgent to establish the ideals of national identity, based on the age-old cultural patterns constituting a national tradition. Further progress is impossible without awareness of the importance of spiritual values resting on the ideals of citizenship and patriotism.
To identify the degree of importance of traditional culture in the context of contemporary social and economic reforms — means to solve the important social and educational task, serving the spiritual improvement of the nation, moral-ethical and cultural renewal of society. The goals of the research are current state of preservation and the prospects for the revival and development of the family, cultural, recreational, social, humanitarian traditions.
Activities aimed at socio-pedagogical regulation of the preservation and development of traditional forms of Russian national culture in the context of socio-pedagogical perspective, against the background of modern social and economic reform are complicated and important.
Introducing productive cultural practice which strengthens high moral ideals we solve important problems of formation of civil identity, a holistic relationship of man to the social and natural world, a positive perception of the world as a whole, balannce between individual and social interests of the citizens.
National identity of the Russians is one of the most complicated questions of philosophical and cultural debates. Despite the historically established religious tolerance, revealed in various aspects, religious and moral foundations of Russia were formed in considerable controversy. Regardless of the distance separating pre-Christian Rus’, Kiev Rus’, pre-Petrine and Russia of the Age of Enlightment, there is some specificity of folklore in cultural of these historical periods, pagan in its nature, which contradicts basic components of official orthodox ideology.
Spiritual struggles of old and new, high and low in the minds of Orthodox Rus’ were called by V. Kliuchevsky the diversity of religious consciousness and household assimilation of Christianity. Folklore, as well as the Orthodoxy, formed the foundation of Russian cultural identity, composing the basis of the Russian spirit and national character.