PARADOX OF MENTAL MANIFISTATIONS IN MASS CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE RUSSIANS

Abstract

As a part of mental characteristics of the Russian people there is a paradox of discrepant unity of features and nature of nation. The character of the paradox of mental mass consciousness was forming under the influence of discrepant history process, geographic location of the country between the East and the West, peculiarity of Russian Orthodox Church etc. Current events in contemporary Russia corroborate the discrepant characteristic of mass consciousness of the Russians