The concept takes on a different meaning depending on the author:
according to
Philip Bagby, it is one of the peripheral civilizations.[3]
others, such as professor Vladimir Nikolayevich Leksin, consider it a myth.[4]
According to Samuel Huntington, there is no such thing as a Russian civilization. In his view, Russian culture is a part of an Eastern Orthodox civilization.
Toynbee regarded the Russian civilization as having modest cultural achievements, but as something complete,
Danilevsky and
Spengler described it more as a phenomenon of the future,[5] the latter believed that
government reform of Peter the Great did not meet the traditions of a Russian civilization.[6]
Plekhanov and
Berdyaev believed that a Russian civilization occupies a border position between East and West.
Solovyov believed that the mission of a Russian civilization in the unification of East and West, and the
Eurasianists consider it as some third force.[7]
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abМ. Н. Свистунов.
"РОССИЙСКАЯ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИЯ И ПРАВОСЛАВИЕ: ДИАЛЕКТИКА ИХ ВЗАИМООТНОШЕНИЙ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ РАЗВИТИЯ" [Russian civilisation and Orthodoxy: the dialectic of their mutual relationships and prospects of development]. mosgu.ru (in Russian).
Moscow University for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-02-26. 'Русская цивилизация' — это характеристика цивилизации по основополагающему, коренному народу, ее создавшему - русскому народу, всегда составляющему подавляющее большинство населения страны [Translation: 'Russian civilisation is the characteristic of a civilisation according to the underlying native people which has founded it - the Russian people, which has always constituted the overwhelming majority of the population of the country].