The image of the future and a fair social structure: public opinion of nizhny novgorod residents in 2022

Abstract

The article summarizes the individual results of a sociological study of the public opinion of residents of the Nizhny Novgorod region, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the creation of the USSR. The results of the study are considered from the point of view of the influence of the Soviet period of the country's history on the formation of the image of the future on the scale of macro-social groups and strata of the population. The article presents the role and influence of ideas formed in the Soviet period about social justice and, in a narrow sense, the just social structure of society and the state on the formation of the image of the future in modern Russia. The key role of the ideas and collective historical memory formed in the Soviet period in the further development of the country, the unity of the regions and the center is emphasized. The materials continue the series of studies 2015-2022. and are based on research data conducted by the Volga Branch of the Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the ANO "Research Institute of Social Management Problems" (Nizhny Novgorod).