About the book: 2015 / The book is dedicated to the mystery of Russia, which changes unrecognizably every 20 years, and at the same time it repeats a certain matrix of events and patterns of human behavior. The author asks and tries to find answers to difficult questions: after 20 years of hurricane changes in our lives, have we retained our “Russianness” or not? Does something unite the peoples of Russia or does everyone live their lives alone with a host of problems? How have globalization and the “market” affected Russians? How does the symbiosis of globalist trends affect Russia’s traditional forms of government? How has the national self-awareness of Russians, their civic and family values, morality, culture, ideas about democracy, and attitudes toward their country and other countries changed? To create a mental portrait of modern Russians, a wide range of statistical and cultural material is used. For a wide range of readers. 2nd edition, stereotypical.