Historian and Myth. Perversion of Modern Historical Imagination

Abstract

Author shows that myth occupies in modern historical imagination not little part as in previous times. Such situation is product of the globalization, modernization, and informative revolution. Modern world become too complicated for ordinary man. Mass media depart the terrible but more understandable ghosts of past in his consciousness. As a result total visualization of history by television mass consciousness was concentrated in search of historical culprits of modern confusions. So now rank and file Russian citizens tend to see main historical guilt in liberal activity in past and in our day. The Russian liberals seems to by the main agent provocateurs of revolutions.