Temporal representation of Russia in the dynamics of notion of Tyumen resident

The temporal representation of the country is studied in the article as an important element of the national civic identity. This representation is an awareness of the past, present and future of the country and identification with it. The temporal strategy of the nation is formed at the macro level of society and present oneself the prevailing structure of the past fixed in the minds of the citizens of the country. In this meaning can speak about the nations of the past, present and future. Russia in this logic is a nation of the past. In the mass consciousness of Russian society circulates mythological ideas about the past of Russia. The article attempts to investigate some of these images and representations. The empirical base of this article is the data obtained as a result of a questionnaire survey conducted in March-April 2015 and March-April 2017 among adult residents of Tyumen (aged 17 and over). The dimension of the representative selection in both measurements was 1600 respondents. In the process of data analysis, four age groups were identified based on a generational approach: the Soviet generation (born before 1972), the late Soviet generation (1973-1984), the post-Soviet transition generation (born in 1985-1993), the post-Soviet generation (1994-2000 years of birth). It can be stated the key tendency saved which identified in 2015. Firstly, the continuation of the line for the nationalization past of the country in the administrative-mobilization logic of a vertically integrated personalistic political regime. At the same time, there are obvious signs of a loss of its mobilizing power, a rise in the level of public consciousness of skepticism about this line because of its divergence from reality. Secondly, in the temporal construction of the representation of Russia, the priority of the past remains. However, in 2017, an increase in the degree of identification of respondents with the present of Russia and its future was recorded. This allows us to talk about the exhaustion of the energy of the past in the mobilization and consolidation policy, which is likely to result in its immediate change in the direction of increasing attention to the future, constructing the corresponding narrative "from above". Thirdly, the preservation of the conservative trend in the construction of a national narrative about the country's ideal past, both at the level of political discourse and at the level of mass representations of citizens. At the same time, conservative sentiments are more pronounced in young generation groups, which, in particular, is manifested in the assessment of the role of Soviet historical experience.

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