DEVELOPMENT OF LIBERAL HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSHESSIN RUSSIA AT THE TURN OF 20th-21st CENTURIES

Abstract

The article analyses the development of liberal historical consciousness in Russia in the late 20th - early 21st centuries. The relevance and socio-political significance of this issue are obvious: the number of people carrying this form of consciousness in the modern world is innumerable, which also indicates the scientific and historical significance of its analysis. This is confirmed by the assessment of liberalism given by the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin at the G-20 meeting in Japan (28-29 June 2019). The article focuses on analysing the development of prerequisites for the formation of liberal historical consciousness that constitutes the novelty, as well as the scientific and practical significance, of the posed problem, which, in this case, is done using mainly the comparative historical method and the principle of historicism. The massive nature of historical consciousness determined the choice of information sources, which mainly include materials and publications in the newspapers Moskovsky Komsomolets and Soviet Russia. The article analyses the formation of liberal historical consciousness at its initial stage, which does not cover all its essence and content; as well as shows who and how was involved in this formation.