The Idea of War in the Culture of the Russian Nation

Piotr Gawliczek; Jacek Mrozek; Andrzej Soboń

doi:10.15804/ppsy202515

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Title

The Idea of War in the Culture of the Russian Nation

Authors

Piotr Gawliczek ^{[ 1 ]}
Jacek Mrozek ^{[ 1 ]}
Andrzej Soboń (WBN) ^{[ 2 ][ 6.3 ][ P ]}

^{[ 1 ]} Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie | ^{[ 2 ]} Wydział Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego, Akademia Sztuki Wojennej | ^{[ P ]} employee

Scientific discipline (Law 2.0)

[6.3] Security studies

Year of publication

2025

Published in

POLISH POLITICAL SCIENCE YEARBOOK

Journal year: 2025 | Journal volume: Vol. 54 | Journal number: iss. 2

Article type

scientific article

Publication language

english

Keywords

PL

Bezpieczeństwo
Etnopsychologia
Ideologia
Konflikty zbrojne
Kultura
Mit polityczny
Pamięć zbiorowa
Rosja
Rosjanie
Socjologia polityki
Świadomość społeczna
Tożsamość narodowa
Wartości (filozofia)
Wojna

EN

Armed conflict
Culture
Ideology
Russia
Security
War

Abstract

EN Mentality is the result of social processes and is shaped by life experiences, as well as values and norms passed on during socialization. In the case of Russia, history, literature, art, and spirituality play a significant role in shaping the national identity and, consequently, the perception of war. The image of war is often presented in a selective or idealized way. In Russian historical discourse, the positive aspects of one’s history are often emphasized, while, simultaneously, controversial or negative factors are often ignored or minimized. The methodology employed in the paper involves a qualitative comparative method, which involves analyzing the concept of war in Russian culture, describing the characteristics of a nation’s mentality through various aspects of an ethnic group’s spiritual life, and understanding the ideology underlying Russia’s foreign policy. The article concludes that analyzing the concept of war within the Russian nation’s culture is not possible without understanding the general mentality of the entire society. The Russians are less willing to take up the problem of crimes committed in that period by soldiers of the Red Army, which is also the case during the occupation of Ukraine.

Date of online publication

2025

Pages (from - to)

5 - 18

DOI

10.15804/ppsy202515

URL

https://czasopisma.marszalek.com.pl/journals/31/729/12430

Comments

Bibliografia na stronach 17-18.

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CC BY-NC-ND (attribution - noncommercial - no derivatives)