Dmitry V. Pisachkin, Senior lecturer at the Department of Theory and Methodology of Public Administration, Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Moscow, e-mail: dmitrypisachkin@mail.ru
The goal. This article examines the Cossacks as an institution, the revival and formation of which is associated with the opportunistic procedures taking place in the post-Soviet space. In the course of the research, a close intersubstantial connection between the Cossacks and the clergy is revealed, their temporality, compilation and stratification are considered within the framework of a single system, which is represented by Orthodoxy. In the course of scientific research, the Cossacks were considered as: ideology, social institution, estate, public association, component of Orthodoxy.
Procedure and methods. The semantic constructions of institutional theories are used in the work. In the course of scientific research, the method of dialectics was used, in particular, the law of transition from quantitative to qualitative changes, the law of unity and struggle of opposites, the integrative method was used, as well as the philosophical ideas of Kant, Hegel and Ilyin.
Results. In the course of scientific research, the Cossacks were considered as: ideology, social institution, estate, public association, component of Orthodoxy.
The novelty of the work lies in the establishment of a cause-and-effect relationship between changes in the country’s political regime and the revival of an obsolete class (the Cossacks).
Of scientific interest is the reverse effect of the theory of institutional matrices, when the established daily routine of a multidirectional social group is reflected in a ready–made ideological construct - Orthodoxy, while in the classical sequence, on the contrary, the ideological projection, reflecting the main goals of society’s development, legitimizes subsequent economic and political ways to achieve them.
Theoretical and/or practical significance. The relevance of the research is expressed in the practical application of this institute, the range of possibilities of which can be applied in religious, cultural, social, political and other aspects. The study took place in the context of socio-philosophical knowledge reflecting the objective realities of existence. As part of the scientific work, for the purpose of comparison, other estates of the pre-revolutionary regime were considered, such as the merchants and the nobility, who, along with the Cossacks, were persecuted by the authorities, but unlike the Cossacks and the clergy were not reanimated.
Keywords: Orthodoxy, Cossacks, clergy, estate, oath, revival of the Cossacks
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