NATIONAL PERSEVERANCE AS THE CRUCIAL QUALITY OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE'S MASS CONSCIOUSNESS

Abstract

An important place among various features of the Russian people's mass consciousness belongs to the national perseverance shaped under the influence of various factors, like natural conditions, the nation's military history, Russian Orthodox religion, etc. The article has supplied a comparative analysis of the Russian people's mass consciousness with other peoples in America and in Europe. In the long run, Russia, as the author has remarked, acquired grandeur as a powerful political and cultural force.