Ideological and Axiological Foundations of the National Identity of the Russian and Serbian Youth

Boldin Vladimir (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia), boldin.v.a@gmail.com
Yakovleva Alexandra (Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia), afyakovleva@gmail.com

The article attempts to identify the ideological and value bases of the national identities of Russian and Serbian youth, two Slavic countries with strong ties. The phenomenon of the national identity of modern Russian and Serbian youth is of particular interest to comprehend. These two countries experienced the transit of power and the transformation of collective self-images in the early 1990s and have a lot in common: cultural and linguistic ties; the experience of living in the Soviet political system; the collective trauma of the statehood collapse; and the following growth of nationalism. On the other hand, it is clear that many of those factors are changing. Thus, at the current stage, the common Slavic identity is losing its former ideological-theoretical and value-semantic content. The hypothesis of the study is that the ideas, meanings, and values that form the basis of the Slavic identity can become one of the factors in the consolidation of Russian and Serbian society, especially in the context of the formation of the national-state identity of modern youth. In addition, the dominants of public consciousness and value-semantic matrices identified in the research will make it possible to build a productive dialogue between our countries that have a similar civilizational code. This is relevant in the current situation of international tension, which will have long-term consequences

Keywords: national identity, values, ideas, Russia, Serbia, youth, Slavs