The political temperature of society as a new motinoring index in the state management of sustainable development

The author introduces a new category into the system of social sciences, namely, that of 'the political temperature of society' and demonstrates its potential and capability in terms of prognostics and state management. The author provides synchronic and diachnoric gauges of the political temperature of Russian society, tracing a dependency ofstatewide catastrophies onfluctuations in the political temperature ofsociety