The Structuring of the Russian Humanitarian Environment: Approaches to Studies

Abstract

The author proposes approaches to studying the state and structure of the humanitarian environment in a historical context. The article analyzes organizational forms of humanitarian life, research and education typical of Russia from the 1920s into this day. On the one hand, the New Order of the 21st century's initial decade re-creates the Soviet routine with its concentrated environment, catchwords, and a pronounced division of the community in "our own" and "the strangers". On the other hand, the mass media and the Internet help to create a new humanitarian environment, still to be described.