Abstract
In their minds, subjects of democratic politics constantly form and optimize images of future changes in functioning of the state and society, use them as a tool in the struggle for political influence and leadership. The article provides a comparative analysis of how this creative process is going on within Russian civil society today, in the minds of ordinary citizens and party elites committed to left-wing political values. The author focuses on identifying differences in the results to which the work of party elites and ordinary citizens’ consciousness on the specific contours of the non-liberal (socialist) future of Russia leads. The article contains a forecast of risks for the further development of the democratic process in our country, arising from these differences.
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