Podyachev K.V. The Kulikovo battle and the civilization of Russia: interaction of social and spiritual realities. In: East and West in the Spiritual Culture of Russia: Dialogue and Confrontation (from Alexander Nevsky to the present day): collection of articles based on the materials of the All-Russian Scientific Conference (November 24-25, 2020) ...

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the 640th anniversary of the Kulikovo Battle. The scientific novelty of this: the overwhelming majority of works devoted to this event were written by historians; it is analyzed within the methodological framework of historical science, as a separate historical event. Here, an attempt is made to consider it in a broad context, taking into account sociological, political, and cultural approaches. In this respect, it is not so much historical factology that is important as its spiritual and cultural resonance and the influence it exerted on the formation of Russia as a political organism and a special civilization. Based on the interpretation of G. Prokhorov, the article shows the connection between the political, economic and spiritual-ideological processes taking place at that time. Particular attention is paid to the impact on the spiritual and cultural atmosphere of Russia of that Time of the Byzantine theological disputes of 1335-1351 years. For the first time, the innovative concept of the “paradigm of social action” invented by the sociologist O. Aksenova was applied to the historical analysis. As a result, it was concluded that the victory in the Kulikovo Battle is not so much a military but only political, ethnic and spiritual event.