Cultural and historical attitudes of students of humanitarian and technical specializations

The article is devoted to the study of cultural and historical attitudes of students. The attitudes of students to the period of existence, causes and consequences of the collapse of the USSR as the main topic are investigated. The study used two versions of the questionnaire developed for this purpose: an abbreviated one, containing 14 questions and expanded version based on it, containing 50 questions. The expanded version of the questionnaire in particular allowed to obtain data on students perception of the problem of the existence of the people as a cultural and historical phenomenon, the problem of the existence of sovereign countries, democracy, the possibility of creating a union world state and a number of others. The article presents the results concerning the connection of cultural and historical attitudes of students with their socio-demographic characteristics.