Диалектика народа и массы в романе Р. В. Сенчина «Елтышевы»

Abstract

The novel shows the contemporary stage of the long process of making the mass of the Russian folk (starting from the edge of the 19th and 20th centuries). The folk mentality goes back to the irreparable past; the mass human being of the Soviet formation, receiving life impulse from the state, is substituted by a new type of an embittered and desperate lone person, for whom social hatred and crime become a norm and modus vivendi.