Personality and politics. Problems of modern youth subculture

The article is devoted to the problems of young men involvement in Russian public life at the beginning of the XXI century. Political socialization is considered as an element of youth subculture in period of transition from modernist society to postmodern one. The article analyses socialization process taking into account transitive character and instability of Russian political elite. It describes the formation of young men political culture in globalization environment. It emphasizes that political socialization is developing now: according to the western sample; according to soviet period models; according to the stochastic processes laws. These processes are natural for marginalized part of this social group. The author comes to the conclusion about low political influence of government bodies on youth subculture.