THE INFLUENCE OF EVERYDAY CONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE USSR ON THE ATTITUDE OF THE POPULATION TO THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROCESSES IN MODERN RUSSIA
The article considers the problem of psychological influence of everyday conceptions about the USSR on the attitude of the population to the socio-economic processes in modern Russia. An obvious polarisation of political views of Russian citizens cannot find any explanation in modern sociology, and requires deep psychological research identifying the causes and describing the psychological mechanisms of this phenomenon. The article analyzes the phenomenon of political debate in the mass media, during which different points of view clash and there are given diametrically opposite assessments of the USSR as state and its role in social, economic and political development of contemporary Russia.