"Western values ​​vs. Spiritual scrapers "

A lecture on the current topic of choosing identity by the state and its citizens affects a lot of curious practical issues. The double -headed eagle seems to unfold both heads to the east. Judging by the official rhetoric of recent years, Russian society must form its own identity, retreating from European experience. On the contrary, many opposition citizens dream of a "European version of Russia." It seems that both sides have less and less desire to go to dialogue. From the point of view of a political scientist, the current situation is not unique. Many states at the end of the 20th century faced the need to build their identity on contrasting themselves to Europe and the USA. In some of them, the opposition, just as in Russia, focused on the European path of development, in others the authorities turned to such rhetoric. We will conduct a comparative analysis of such states and Russia, and talk about the economic and social consequences of choosing a “special path”. Does this “value choice” affect the quality of life of citizens? Are publicly expressed values ​​and real behavior of people related? Which is better for the successful development of the country - the presence of value schisms or their absence? To these and many other questions will try to answer the lecture “Western values ​​vs. Spiritual scrapers ”(http://bit.ly/1k6rxx6) Lecturer at the Department of Theory of Politics and Political Analysis of the Faculty of Applied Political Science of the Higher School of Economics, Irina Soboleva. Irina Soboleva is a teacher at the Department of Theory of Politics and Political Analysis of the Faculty of Applied Political Science of the Higher School of Economics. In 2013, with honors, she graduated from the faculty of the Faculty of Applied Political Science, the Higher School of Economics and is currently a graduate student of the faculty of applied political science. The best teacher of the Higher School of Sciences 2012 and 2013, three times a scholarshipist of the Oxford Fund, twice a scholarship holder of the Foundation V. Potanin. He gives lectures on comparative research on political protests and methods of political research. In the field of scientific interests - the sociology and psychology of protest movements, the technique of power in postmodern.