Intergenerational Rift in the Light of the General Crisis of Russian Culture

Abstract

The article gives an analytical survey of culture crisis state appeared due to the lack of wellthought- out and systemic state policy in this sphere of the Russian society for the last thirty years. The general commitment to western examples of culture (mass media, literature, theatre, etc.) promoted inter-generation crisis exacerbation. The sphere of culture has become the very fault that has identified the modern inter-generation crisis. During the investigation both general scientific (analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, comparatively-historical and dialectical) and specific scientific methods (analysis of secondary sociological data) were applied. Also the survey of interviews, article texts, Internet blogs and others on the issues of upbringing the younger generation in modern conditions are presented in the research. The authors of the article made analysis of the contemporary state of culture based on evidential material. The special attention is paid to inter-generation crisis appeared in the 90s of the XXth century due to cardinal focuses change in all life spheres of society and, particularly, in culture of the Russian state. The authors of the article find inter-generation crisis overcoming in rejection from total culture westerinzation and in the necessity of systemic propaganda of basic traditional Russian values.