REPRESENTATION AND COMPREHENSION OF THE 1880 - 1881 CRISIS IN "RUS" NEWSPAPER

Abstract

The article discusses the 1880 and 1881 political crisis in the Russian Empire reflected in the publications of Ivan Sergeevich Aksakov, the editor of "Rus" newspaper. It is noted that being a Slavophile, Aksakov saw the main cause of the crisis in the split of the country into a folk, traditional and indigenous Russia, and the Europeanized Empire. The only salvation he saw in the union of the autocratic power with the people, and called to it on the pages of his newspaper. Great attention was paid to the problem of moral education of youth. Aksakov’s attitude to the policy of “heart dictatorship” was rather wary, as he was afraid of rampant nihilism. But many Loris-Melikov’ reform initiatives found support on the pages of "Rus".