Ethnonational Stories: Socio-Political Foundations and Economics of Construction (Based on the Materials of the Republic of Tatarstan)

Abstract

I tried to analyze ethnonational stories as important components of the modernization of post-traditional, in particular, post-Soviet societies. In the course of the study, a direct connection was established between the content of these narratives and the tasks of modernization. It is proved that the main factor in the construction of ethnically oriented stories about the past is not an individual author, but a corporation that is in complex internal and external relations of subordination and redistribution of resources. The question was raised about the "corporate" identity, which for an ethnocentric author is more important than the national identity expected of him. Qualitative differences between scientific and ethnooriented (but positioned "academic") texts are revealed. The result of the study was an attempt to develop a methodology for studying the narratives of ethnonational stories.