AMBIGUITY OF HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERNIZATION OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIETY
The article discovers certain factors and forms to manifest the ambiguity of historical consciousness in the context of modernization processes in the Russian society. The author shows that the ambiguity of historical consciousness manifests itself in the form of confrontation between Westernism and Slavophilism regarding the evaluation of the Soviet past and modern reforms in Russia. The paper concludes on the necessity of the dialogue between nationally and liberally oriented history as a provision to identify and realize the cultural potential of historical consciousness.