CHINA AND RUSSIA: IDEOLOGIES OF NATIONALISM, COMPARATIVE HISTORIC ANALYSIS

Comparative historical research of ideologies of nationalism in China and Russia
in XVIII – early ХХ century. Finding the typical tendencies of emerginf and developing
ideologies of nationalism in China and Russia, forming the system of ideologies
of nationalist theories appearing as a result of coming in touch with the West and accepting
traits of certain traditionalism in state and social theories as well as in people’s
movements. Analyzing historically formed reactions of Russian and Chinese
cultures to the expansion of the Western civilization, pointing out both typologically
similar forms of historic and cultural synthesis and differences in perception and estimation
of Western culture in China and in Russia. Analysis not only of historic revelation
of such reactions, but also of precise ideological conceptions. Reconstructing
historic models of forming nationalist movements. Historic events and ideological
constructs in their correlation. The target of the project is to hold an interdisciplinary
research to study the genesis and development of nationalist ideologies in China and
in Russia, involving specialists from different fields of knowledge: history, philosophy,
political studies, comparative studies.