“Closed Society and its Friends”: Strategy of Survival of the Russian Civilization in the Conditions of Global Turbulence

Abstract

Based on the principles of system approach and using the historical and genetic method, the author examines the process of evolution of Russian civilization from the superpower of the USSR to the weakened international positions of the Russian Federation (1985–1999) and comes to the conclusion that the main mistake of the state-management elite was the premature opening of economic, informational, socio-cultural “contours” of the state and society to the external impact of the collective West (Euro-Atlantic), which turned out to be destructive and directed towards the Russian civilization. In modern conditions, Russia in the international arena positions itself as a state-civilization, which has to simultaneously solve two political problems: ensuring a sufficient de-gree of “closedness” from external destructive influences, but at the same time searching for a spiritual and ideological concept of “open” type, aimed at gathering allies around it, ready to resist the westernized version of globalization and the unipolar military-political model of the international system.