Cultural Awareness Papers

Introduction

Russian culture is a hybrid generated from the customs of many civilizations that shaped this great state multicultural and the result of its development over several times. Being deeply rooted in the culture of the Early East Slavs. Historically the dominant condition in Russia has been occupied by Russian culture, Russian culture and Russian citizenship. This is partly because the Russians constitute the majority of the population and because many times in the history of Russia, the cultures of other nationalities were integrated into Russian culture through the Justification.

The culture of ancient Rus', was involved in the conversion to Orthodox Christianity and the reception of Byzantine art and architecture. The Church owned resources to commission great works of art, as well as the mind and will of preservation. Back in 1890, a new form of art was booming, the Russian avant-garde. However, developed within the Soviet regime when the government took control of all artistic activity. The Soviet Union's policy with regard to culture was controversial: on one side was a politically motivated desire to create a "Soviet people", which was expressed in the notion of Soviet culture, exemplified by the Socialist Realism. There were periodic campaigns for the preservation of national cultures: each ethnic group has its "great national writers" and popular cultural practices are officially supported.

Discussion

Russia has some of the biggest names in world culture, as composers Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky, literary greats like: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and chess figures as Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. The history of Russia begins with the arrival of the East Slavs, the ethnic group that later derive the Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians.

The first East Slavic state was the Rus (or principality) of Kiev, who adopted Christianity for the important influence of the Byzantine Empire in 988, beginning the fusion of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that characterize the Russian for the next seven centuries. The Kievan Rus' finally disintegrated into several kingdoms that compete with each other by rank as heirs of their civilization and territorial dominance in the area and ended up under Mongol rule.

After the thirteenth century, Muscovy gradually came to dominate the former cultural space. Arrived the eighteenth century, the principality of Moscow had risen to become the vast Russian Empire, stretching from Poland to the Pacific Ocean. The westward expansion fueled the Russian consciousness lagging behind European countries and ended the isolation of the first times. Successive regimes nineteenth century responded to such pressures with a combination of timid reformism and repression. Russian Feudalism was abolished in 1861, but on terms unfavorable to the peasants and served to increase revolutionary pressures. Between the abolition of serfdom and the beginning of World War I in 1914, Piotr Stolypin reforms, the constitution of 1906 and State Duma introduced notable changes in the economy and politics of the country, however, the tsars were not to rise to the occasion to give authoritarian power. The last monarch, Tsar Nicholas II, ruled until 1917.

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