Abstract
The extent of the political consequences of the USSR's disintegration invites the thought that changes in culture, in systems of value orientations, and in norms of behavior must also be at least commensurate with political changes. However, in analyzing the events of 1986-91, as well as what is taking place in Russia now, the important issue is not the transformation of society's values themselves but changes in the structure of their articulation, in the forms in which they are expressed. The normative conceptions themselves, the fundamental models of reality, and attitudes toward different aspects of private and public existence were formed earlier and have remained practically unchanged in the principal groups and strata of the population. Moreover, new cultural or ideological positions have not appeared.
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