The ideas of the young V. O. Klyuchevsky on the goals of personal development and the progress of Russian society in the 1860s

Abstract

The article gives an interpretation of the ideas of the young V. O. Klyuchevsky about the peculiarities of the ideological search of young people and the direction of development of Russian society in the sixties of the XIX century. The novelty of the research lies in the attempt to comprehend the problem of perception of V. O. Klyuchevsky himself was one of the representatives of the younger generation of the 1860s, in assessing his ideas about the ideological and value foundations of the activities of the individual and society in Russia during the era of the Great Reforms. The main source of work is the diaries of V. O. Klyuchevsky. The study was carried out in line with modern methodological approaches, which involve the study of the ideological and moral foundations of the culture of the individual in the context of the historical era.