Paradoxes of public consciousness: stereotypic representations of the power in Russian history

The myth about the domination of monarch preferences in Russian mentality is extremely convenient for explanation of failures in the course of formation of a democratic society. In this connection domestic history is constantly referred to though it is not justified/ at al. It is obvious, that in mass consciousness rationalistic representations about mission of the state leader have merged together with both religious-mystic, and rational attitudes to the state leader's role and the latter greatly defined mass behaviour.