EGALITARIANISM IN THE RUSSIAN MASS POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS Sumskaya Marina Yurievna, PhD in History. <...> Place of employment: Russian economic University named after G.V.Plekhanov. <...> Department: theory and history of state and law chair. <...> Position: associate professor: Place of employment: Russian state humanitarian University. <...> Branch: branch in the city of Georgievsk of Stavropol territory. <...> Annotation: The article discusses the concept of egalitarianism and its historical development, with emphasis on various approaches to the problem of equality, analyzed the relationship between individual and generalized political consciousness, the process of formation of mass political consciousness on the basis of the elite described the transformation in the mass political consciousness of postSoviet man. <...> Keywords: equality, social justice, elitist political consciousness, mass political consciousness. ( . цРКХТtКrТsЦО, цРКХТtц — с - ; с . . <...> В статье рассмотрена концепция эгалитаризма и ее историческое развитие, выделены различные подходы к проблеме равенства, проанализировано соотношение между индивидуальным и обобщенным политическим сознанием, исследован процесс формирования массового политического сознания на основе элитарного, описана трансформация в массовом политическом сознании постсоветского человека! <...>