Byzov L.G. The value evolution of the Putin consensus in the first year of the last presidential term. Social Sciences and modernity, 2019, Issue 4, pp. 42-56.

Abstract

In the article the author on the basis of comparative studies of the Institute of Sociology of RAS and VTSIOM in 2017-2019 shows the process of transition of the Putin era from the stage of consolidation on the basis of public consensus that arose in 2012-14, the so-called Crimean consensus to the current pre-crisis. Although the current state of society cannot be unambiguously interpreted as a split, value contradictions are growing, albeit very slowly. The idea of a strong and effective state is left to the least modernized segments of the population, while in the actual state the frustration of all segments of society is growing. The growing demand for change has not yet found any political flesh, which makes the inevitable transit of epochs extremely risky for the country and society. The author shows that the Putin consensus continues to live, despite the erosion from the flanks-first of all, the left liberals, the main opponents of the system.