ARCHAIZATION OF ASSESSMENTS OF THE PAST AS A SOCIOCULTURAL PHENOMENON ON THE EXAMPLE OF A NUMBER OF MODERN ASSESSMENTS OF SOVIET CULTURE

Abstract

The article is devoted to one of the most acute, urgent and practically significant problems - the
problem of the relationship to the past, which is constantly changing in the context of the tasks that arise at
new stages of historical development.
Based on the analysis of articles and essays in a number of central literary-artistic and socio-political
journals, the authors draw attention to the course of modern spiritual life, which is associated with the "stuck"
of a part of the creative elite in the recent past, in connection with which the concept of "archaization of
assessments of the past".
Also, the authors give the concept of "ideology" and "ideocracy" as global concepts and their role,
meaning and function in Soviet society. The authors also draw attention to the very socio-cultural variability
of the significance of such assessments, as well as to the fact that in the changed realities, criticism of the
past can objectively play the role of a maneuver that distracts from a deep understanding of culture in
general and pressing issues of the present.
Key words: archaization of assessments of the past, socialism, Soviet culture, philosophy, Marxism.