SYSTEM TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE FORMATION OF INFORMATION SOCIETY AS A BACKGROUND OF GROWTH OF POPULISM IN POST-SOCIALIST COUNTRIES
The purpose of the article is to analyze the modern process of social and political socialization of the society of the post-socialist countries of Europe, which passed the stage of systemic transformation at the beginning of the 21st century. The subject of the article is a demonstration of how populism takes root in a society with a relatively low level of politicization and takes more and more space due to the powerful influence of the media, changing the structure of an individual's values, the level and nature of their political activity, which determines their political behavior with corresponding negative consequences of socio-political sphere. Research methods - political analysis. The research results can be used as a methodology and will be applied to the analysis of the socio-political processes of modern Russia.