Identity – a resource for social development. To the publication of the encyclopedic study “Identity: personality, society, politics”

The article is an analytical review of a fundamental work on the phenomenon of identity prepared at IMEMO RAS under the supervision of Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences I.S. Semenenko. An interdisciplinary study in two books is devoted to the procedural aspects and dynamics of forms of identification of an individual and society in relation, first of all, to country, ethnic and religious affiliation, as well as the conditions for the formation of an all-Russian national self-consciousness from the point of view of civil and civilizational identification. The work substantiates a civilizational approach to the Russian and other largest nations of the world, continental and religious communities; contains an overview of such forms of collective identity as professional, racial, diaspora and others. The decisive role of cultural and identification factors in world politics and in the policy of nation-building, in ensuring the sovereignty and solidarity of state communities is noted. The books contain a bibliographic dictionary of leading scientists and a complete bibliography of scientific literature in this field. The publication is encyclopedic in nature and establishes a new scientific direction in the social and humanitarian sciences – identitarian studies.