The Ukrainian Crisis in the Contextof Major Socio-Political and Socio-Cultural Process that Shape the Mass Consciousness of Russians
The paper is based on the research by RAS Institute of sociology, October- November 2014. It attempts to analyze the state of the popular consciousness of Russian population that was formed in 2014, with the Crimean and Ukrainian events, unofficially dubbed “The Crimean Anomaly”. As shown in the paper, the popular consciousness had experienced an actualization of the archetypal consciousness level that represents the “proper” place of Russia in the world and the relationship between the government and the people. The majority of Russian people consolidated around governmental actions, as happens during mobilization, yet in this case, the mobilization took place against the background of a deep value gap, global radicalization due to radical political and ideological figures, and against the background of non-mobilizable poignant, not archetypal, values and mental setups. Thus, as the author of the paper believes, The Crimean Anomaly will cause the “New Russian Agenda” to emerge.