Soviet State and Society: on a Question of Evolution of Opposition in the 1960–1970th Years

Abstract

The article analyzes the socio-economic and spiritual-moral characteristics of the relationship between the Russian state and society at various stages of national history, showing their specificity in the so-called Soviet period. The author made an attempt to consider these relations taking into account the specifics of the socio-economic and political development of the state and the mentality of Russians, radical changes after the Great Russian Revolution, the influence of the political «thaw» of the mid-1950s-1960s on the spiritual and moral state of Soviet society. The author examines the causes and origins of oppositional sentiments, transformed into a so-called dissident movement.

Keywords

• power
• leadership
• state
• dissidence
• ideology
• dissent
• opposition
• politics
• political system
• dissonance