RUSSIAN POLITICAL PROCESSES IN THE LATE XX CENTURY AS THE OBJECT OF SOCIALCULTURAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

Social-cultural analysis has found wide application in the study of political transformations taking place in Russia since the end of the XX century. The nature and characteristics of political processes in post-Soviet Russia are linked to the cultural and political norms and values that underlie mass consciousness. The traditions of domestic political institutions, aspirations and interests of citizens, the style of political leadership - all this is a product of historical and cultural experience, the established system of relations. This made possible the drift of value orientations in various directions and led to significant value disengagement among Russians. On the basis of various value systems, various socio-cultural types of attitude to political and economic changes have developed and continue to evolve. It is also expedient to include in the political culture samples or stable, representative models of the behavior of individuals and groups participating in the political process. It is these components that are the subject of social-cultural analysis in the study of changes taking place in Russia at the end of the XX and beginning of the XXI century. An analysis of the three stages in the transformation of the value orientations of Russians made it possible to state a significant erosion of the previously dominant system of values of Soviet society.