"BACK IN THE USSR" OR THE REASONS FOR THE NOSTALGIA OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIETY ABOUT THE "GOLDEN AGE"
The article is devoted to the study of the nature and factors of the formation of nostalgic attitudes towards the Soviet past in contemporary Russia.The author shows that the idealization of the Soviet system is, on the one hand, a situational reaction of the mass consciousness to the protracted socio-economic problems of Russian society. On the other hand, the reconstruction of the positive image of the Soviet past acts as an element of the symbolic strategy of state policy, reflecting the goals and concepts of building the national sovereignty of Russia