Cultural and historical background of the formation of the Soviet people mentality

Kamianets Alexander V., Kovaleva Inna A.

The paper is devoted to the basic mental characteristics of the Soviet people as the development of cultural and historical traditions of the Russian super-ethnos. The connection of traditional religious-communal way of life of the Russian people with the way of life of the Soviet people is considered. Among the revealed features of the Soviet people mentality, special attention is paid to its most stable characteristics, which have not lost their significance for a better understanding of the problems of contemporary Russian society. A comparison is also made of the traditional Russian mentality, which developed in the Soviet period and the peculiarities of the European peoples' mentality. Of particular interest to researchers of the Soviet civilization is the analysis of the influence of the Russian people mentality on the character of the October revolution and the choice of the historical path of development by the peoples of Russia in the Soviet period. Important for studying the problems and contradictions of modern Russian society is also the selection of those characteristics of the Soviet mentality that have not lost their significance in the conditions of our time.

Keywords:mentality, nation, culture, community, tradition, society, communism.