Two hundred years of creation of Radishchev

In article tendencies of judgment of experience of such Russian kulturtrager as A. N. Radishchev are analyzed. The hypothesis of radishchevsky not demand ideologically - political heritage is proved in modern Russia. Prerequisites of ideological trends in Russia are investigated. History of formation of a radishchevedeniye in Russia of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries within the politician - an ideological discourse is analyzed. According to the main thesis of article the ideological heritage of Radishchev isn't demanded in Russia of the twenty first century because of lack of ideological prerequisites. Is the reason of the specified phenomenon both political discredit of revolutionary ideologems, and large-scale transformation of a sociocultural context. Nevertheless the need for the radishchevsky cultural experience lying in the basis of a phenomenon of relationship of the power and the intellectuals becomes aggravated in connection with the known crisis of self-identification of an educated layer in modern Russia, generated a disorientation situation concerning an ideal of a social debt and responsibility, both in relation to society, and to the state. According to the main thesis of article the cultural discourse of modern Russia hasn't included A. N. Radishchev's heritage in a circle of the reference points, is the reason of the specified phenomenon both disintegration of the symbolical horizon of the Russian intellectuals, and loss by educated community of the socio-cultural status (a traditional role and mission). Nevertheless the need for the radishchevsky heritage capable to give answers on actual culturally - historical questions of modern Russia becomes aggravated in connection with a situation of the theoretical deadlock which has generated inability to adequate judgment of a phenomenon of interrelation of such phenomena as “power”, “people”, “intellectuals”. According to the author of article of the historian - the cultural situation of the period of the second half-arieses of the twentieth century initiated process of loss of explanatory legitimacy of such settled concepts as “oppression of the people by the power”, “national suffering”, “an intellectual complex of fault before the people”, “anti-statehood”, “Manichean consciousness”, “cultural mission”, “nihilism”, “groundlessness of the intellectuals”, “recusancy”, “conformism”, “revolutionism”. The purpose of writing of article - determination of symbolical value of heritage of Radishchev in cultural space of Modern Russia. In the course of writing of article methods of the historian - the cultural and contextual analysis have been applied.