title: Soviet Mentality: Markers of Socio-Historical Identity
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metadata.value: Somov, V. A.
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metadata.value: Volkova, E. S.
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metadata.value: 2023-01-13T14:49:41Z
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metadata.value: 2023-01-13T14:49:41Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Somov V. A., Volkova E. S. ‘Soviet Mentality: Markers of Socio-Historical Identity’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 12, no. 4, 2022, pp. 1035–1048. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2022.413 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2022.413
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38849
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metadata.value: Modern historiography of Soviet society is at the stage of forming an impartial assessment of its place
  in the history of Russian civilization. The most famous articles on the history of the USSR are often a documented expression of the author’s research position, which does not always strive for impartiality. Such studies evoke the
  feeling of an ongoing “civil war” — now on the “fronts” of science and journalism. Moreover, a number of authors
  concentrate on studying, mainly, the negative features of the “Soviet project”, transferring these characteristics
  to the entire Soviet society. Following in line with the noumenal approach to the study of Soviet society, the authors
  call on the scientific community to move from a detailed factual description of the Soviet era to identifying
  its basic characteristics, while abandoning politicized assessments. The purpose of the study is to determine the
  main components of the Soviet mentality based on an analysis of its key manifestations in different periods of
  the history of the Soviet state. To achieve this goal, markers of the socio-historical identity of the Soviet person
  are introduced, such as “revolution”, “idea”, “atheism”, “war”, “doublethink”, etc. It was established that the set of
  mental characteristics was not constant, they were updated in depending on the specific historical situation. The
  noumenal characteristics of a Soviet person were historically formed as a result of the dialectical interaction of
  the ideal type of a “non-party Bolshevik” — a socially oriented collectivist with a heightened sense of duty and his
  antipode — the notorious “Sovok” — an irresponsible careerist and social opportunist. In conclusion, it is noted,
  that the Soviet mentality can be defined more as a vector of promising targeted development than as a stable
  socio-psychological type.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 12; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet mentality
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
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metadata.value: revolution
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: atheism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great Patriotic War
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metadata.value: doublethink
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: anti-Sovietism
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Soviet Mentality: Markers of Socio-Historical Identity
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metadata.value: Article
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