The article delves into the features and main vectors of formation of socio-political expectations in modern Russian society. It is emphasized that socio-political expectations are a dynamic component of mass con-sciousness that integrates diverse representations of the collective future in its macro-social and political di-mensions. These representations of the future are the result of the synthesis of social aspirations and the dom-inant mass moods. It is indicated that the specificity and psycho-emotional orientation of socio-political expec-tations prevailing in Russia today are due to such factors as the growth of internal socio-economic uncertainty and the escalation of geopolitical conflict in the context of a Special Military Operation. It is revealed that the trend to maintain socio-political optimism in Russian society is associated with such political and psychological processes as individualization and partial “atomization” of the perceptions of the future and the distancing of a significant number of Russian citizens from the negative images of Russia’s current and future, which are con-structed in digital media. It reveals that a key aspect of the mass expectations of Russians is the desire for so-cio-political predictability and normalization, which is primarily understood as the end of the acute phase of Russia’s conflict with the countries of the “collective West”.
Viktor V. Titov (Wed,) studied this question.