UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA AS A REFLECTION OF CHANGES IN PUBLIC CONSCIENCE
Utopia and dystopia are fantastic genres of philosophy, literature and the cinema, based on the events of the real world. Being the elements of the spiritual life of the society, they alter according to the changes in public conscience, which in turn depends on the present situation and is predicated upon the socioeconomic formation. The article reviewed the course of such changes and the main tendencies.