THE SOVIET MAN IN POSTMODERN CONDITIONS: HISTORICAL POLITICS AND PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS
Based on the synergetic approach, the author analyzed the characteristic features of the Soviet man, identi ed the contradictions between individuality and collectivism in society, independence and dependence of a particular person during this period. The causes of the crisis of the socialist era are considered. The most important feature of the Soviet man of the postmodern era is noted: the ability to “extract” additional information, “read between the lines” and draw conclusions intuitively, based on “insights”. It is concluded that the Soviet man was formed “in a case”: a free personality, clothed in a strictly de ned behavioral and institutional framework. The article notes that the discourse and practices of postmodernism determined not only the appearance of the Soviet man and the socialist world as a whole during the Cold War, but also constructed modern Russian society. The historical memory of the generations of the 1960s-1980s, mythologizing the past, determines modern historical politics, largely forms public consciousness.