Kamenev, E. V., Egorov, A. K. WORLDVIEW FOUNDATIONS OF RUSSIAN PROTEST OF FIRST HALF OF XIX CENTURY // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2018. No 5 (174). DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2018.169


Russian history

WORLDVIEW FOUNDATIONS OF RUSSIAN PROTEST OF FIRST HALF OF XIX CENTURY

Kamenev
E. V. 		Petrozavodsk State University
Egorov
A. K. 		Petrozavodsk Technical School of Municipal Economy
Keywords:
protest
the Decembrists
peasants
the concept of truth
worldview		 Summary: The article is devoted to revealing the worldview foundations of political protest in Russia in the first half of the 19th century. Two social groups that were at different poles of the social space of Russia-the Decembrist nobility and the rioting peasants – are considered. The choice is due to the fact that these two groups were united by a high degree of protest moods. The analysis of the world outlook basis of the Russian protest showed the existence of two principally different types of protest moods among the Decembrist and rioting peasants. In one case, an active, transforming surrounding political reality was supposed to be a subject guided by a well-considered program of the New European type in his actions. In another case there was a politically passive collective, based on religion and awaiting the onset of a “new world”. Two of these systems of views were at different poles. One pole can be called rational modern, based on the ideas of the Enlightenment. Another pole can be called irrational, based on traditional ideas, rooted in the Middle Ages. However, these types of protest moods had a common base. This basis was the sum of views expressed through the concept of truth. The world view of both the Decembrists and peasants reveals their dependence on the idea of the onset of the divineorder on earth. Truth was the ideal that set both the criterion for assessing the existing social reality, and determining the ultimate goal of action.



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