Статья посвящена одной из главных журнальных дискуссий 1850-х годов - полемике о народности, в которой главную роль играли московские журналы «Русская беседа» и «Русский вестник». Целью статьи стало выяснение вопроса о том, в какой мере полемика отражала давний спор западников и славянофилов и насколько близок был журналу М.Н. Каткова славянофильский дух «Русской беседы». Анализ статей оппонентов выявил разность в подходах к понятию народности между западниками и славянофилами, но и обнаружил много общего в позициях журналов по вопросам национального самоопределения, подтвердил дружественное отношение М.Н. Каткова к сотрудникам славянофильского издания.
The article is devoted to one of the main magazine discussions of 1850s, i.e. the polemics about the national spirit, the principal participants of which were Moscow magazines "The Russian Colloquy” and "The Russian Messenger'. The purpose of the article is to define to what extent the polemics reflected a longstanding discussion between the Westernizers and the Slavophiles as well as to find out to what extent M. Katkov's magazine was allied to "The Russian Colloquy” with its Slavophile spirit. It was shown in the analysis of the opponents' articles that the approaches to the national spirit notion differed between the Westernizers and the Slavophiles. The analysis also revealed that the attitudes of the magazines to the national self-determination had much in common, as well as it confirmed the friendship between M. Katkov and the Slavophile magazine staff.
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