THE ATTITUDE OF MODERN YOUTH TO THE REVOLUTIONARY TRANSFORMATIONS THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Assessment of revolutionary transformations in the history of Russia is one of the most important topics in historical and sociological research. The focus of this article is the attitude of modern youth to the revolutionary events that took place in Russian history in the twentieth century. Discusses such aspects as: respondents assessment of their knowledge about revolutions and political coups in the history of Russia, the attitude of young people to the most striking political events of the twentieth century and the attitude of young people to the goals and ideas of the revolutionary transformation of the twentieth century. The main empirical method in this study is a questionnaire survey of young people aged 18 to 35 years, the sample was 235 respondents. In the study, the authors conclude that young people to a greater extent have only general ideas about coups and revolutions in Russia, however, they believe that revolutions were inevitable in 1917, although they had more negative consequences both for the country as a whole and directly for their ancestors, members of their families. The respondents had a different attitude to the collapse of the USSR; almost half of the respondents believed that this was not a historical necessity.