UDC [378+323.2](044)

https://doi.org/10.20339/AM.06-22.110

Vladimir N. Bazylev, Dr. Sci. (Philology), Academic Adviser, “Electronnoe obrazovanie” Ltd., e-mail: v-bazylev@inbox.ru

The article is devoted to the interdisciplinary study of “letters to the authorities” of the Russian scientific and pedagogical community in the XVIII–XXI centuries. The phenomenon of constant is postulated in the conditions of the two-hundred-year history of the relationship between the Russian government and the Russian scientific and pedagogical community as a consequence of tradition and mentality within the framework of Russian linguoculture. The constant epistolary formats are analyzed — letters to the tsar (XVIII — early XX century), letters to leaders or the head of state (XX — early XXI century), letters to the press, so-called “open letter” (XX — the beginning of the XXI century), letters on the Internet — blogs and posts as a stylistic continuation of the “open letter” (the first quarter of the XXI century).

Key words: letter to the authorities, sociology of higher education, constant of culture, science and education, social institute, linguoculture.

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Resources

16. Vera Afanasyeva. Five signs of serious illness. Open letter to the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Olga Vasilyeva from 10.04.2017. Photocopy, computer typing. From the author’s personal archive.

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20. Appeal of the participants of the seminar-meeting of the heads of the departments of the Russian language and literature to the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin. Putin from 27.05.2019. Original, computer typed. From the author's personal archive.

21. Stop the defeat of Moscow Pedagogical State University. A.M. Kamchatnov’s petition to the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation and to the Government of the Russian Federation. Photocopy. From the author's personal archive.

22. Open Letter to the Non-Existent Community of Teachers of Russian Higher Education of 18.09.2020. Photocopy, computer typing. From the author’s personal archive.

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