Social and psychological of formation of the Stalinist mobilization model

The article considers social and psychological factors formation stalinist mobilization model in Russia in the 1920s-1930s. Attention is drawn to the national mentality are constants, as social passivity, weakness of the democratic traditions, authoritarianism, «naive monarchism», communal collectivism. At the same time such features of psychology of the politically active segments of the population are distinguished as a black-and-white worldview, absolutization of violence, a belief in a «big jump».