Economic representations and behavior models of the Ural population (1945-1964) in the historical discourse

The article is devoted to consideration of the approaches existing in a historiography allowing to reveal world outlook reference points, “past traces” left the Soviet society. The scientific content of the concepts “economic representations” and “behavior models” of the population in the context of the Ural region (1945-1964) is analyzed. Some directions in line with which some aspects of the contents and evolution of judgments and strategy of behavior of inhabitants of the Urals during the late Stalin and Khruschev’s periods are comprehended are allocated. Offers on further prospects are stated to researches of this perspective. The attention to need of complex studying of documents of a personal origin is focused.