Globalisation as a Phenomenon of the Transformation of Post-communist Culture: the Historiography of the Issue

The purpose of the article is to determine the cultural and historical determinants of globalisation processes of culture in the post-Soviet space as a phenomenon of dialogue of cultures. The research methodology consists of systematic and comparative methods that made it possible to determine the special features of the globalisation realities of the post- Soviet space. The scientific novelty consists in revealing the features of interaction between the globalisation of culture in general and local initiatives of national cultures, in particular Ukrainian. Conclusions. It should be noted that the globalisation of culture is a metaphor that does not allow us to determine the place of individual cultures in the space of totalisation, homogenisation and levelling of cultural and historical potential as a whole. The post-communist space, in contrast to the post-Soviet space of cultural creation, is also a rather vague definition, because the leftwing radical locus does not lose its relevance. However, the correlation of globalist intentions of metamodernism and post-communism indicates a certain strategy of alterglobalism — a moderate universalism of cultural intentions. The article demonstrates that post-Soviet countries do not fit well into this strategy and mythologeme. Superetatism mimics the system of national ethatism under the condition of the development of autochthonous capitalism, which borders on the oligarchy. It is determined that the postmodern colouring of national cultures in the context of the emergence of postmodern or metamodern strategy is increasingly transformed into different types of ethnic renaissance: museification, festival of traditional values. The field of dialogue of cultures is narrowing, and in the conditions of local conflicts between the countries of the former USSR, it disappears at all. Thus, globalisation as “modernisation”, “McDonaldization”, “transitology” of Western values of mass culture is a globalist syndrome of inequality and reflects the past stage of national culture