Public ?onsciousness of Russians in the Socio-Cultural and Historical Dimension: Problems of Identity

Over the past three decades, Russia has undergone profound socio-economic reforms, often initiated not by the population itself, but by the authorities. However, it is the population, its mass consciousness that has become the main object of deep transformations, expressed not only in a change of lifestyle, but also in the value orientations. Despite the strengthening of market relations, the expected economic effect in Russia has been failed to be achieved. One of the main reasons for this is the inertial mass public consciousness. On the basis of the all-Russian sociological study the article carried out an analysis of the mass consciousness of the Russian population structure--historical, patriotic, legal--and showed its inconsistency hindering the consolidation of the population within the established new political and ideological system framework.