A Critical Review on the Book “Society and Culture of Russia”

Hosseyni, Seyede Motahare

doi:10.30465/crtls.2021.35346.2162

A Critical Review on the Book “Society and Culture of Russia”

Document Type : Research

Author

Seyede Motahare Hosseyni

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2021.35346.2162

Abstract

The works written about Russia are few and mostly have literary, political, journalistic, or security genres. The book “Society and Culture of Russia” has tried to have a general and comprehensive look at the topic of culture in Russian society, which has received less attention in Russian studies. After introducing the book and the author, this article has criticized and analyzed the author's attention to the topic of Russian society and culture. For this purpose, the background and origin of the work have been examined, then with internal structural criticism, the degree of coherence and logical order of the work and its appearance, grammatical and typographical problems have been analyzed. It also deals with its methodology and also explains its content strengths. In the following, extra-structural (basic) criticism of the book is made, and after analyzing and checking the degree of harmony of the contents of the work with its assumed principles and foundations and stating the existing strengths and contradictions, the degree of connection and challenge of the contents of the work with religious and Islamic foundations and principles is discussed.

Keywords

Russia

Culture

Religion

Orthodox

Islam

Subjects

political science

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