THE CONCEPT OF «RUSCISM»: ESSENCE AND FEATURES


DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/2415-881x.2023.90.121-131

Fedir Kyryluk, Roman Kulish

Abstract


The authors define the essence of ruscism as a post-imperial, aggressive, and hateful set of ideologemes towards non-Russian cultures, which considers it normal to ignore international law and use natural and cultural resources to protect the interests of the Russian Federation along with geopolitical pressure on other states, based on the previously proposed reflections on this phenomenon in the political life of the Russian Federation and relying on certain historical facts and myths developed by Russian propaganda. The author identifies five features of ruscism: uncritical thinking; nihilism; westernization; information distortion; and post-imperialism. It was found that the often-described disdain and hatred of ruscism for other cultures is only one of its features. The authors of the study concluded that this is only one of the signs of ruscism. Just as it is only one aspect of the essence of ruscism. In politics, vested interests play a key role, which does not allow us to assert the existence of hatred for the sake of hatred. First of all, ruscism in this study is an ideological justification for the actions of the Russian state, and hatred is one of the pillars of this justification.

Keywords


racism; signs of racism; concept; essence; propaganda

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