RADICAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF POLITICAL VALUES IN THE STATES OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE DURING THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSITION OF THE LATE 1980-s AND EARLY 1990-s

Abstract

The article analyzes the changes that took place in public consciousness during the political and economic transition in the states of Central-Eastern Europe as a result of the fall of totalitarian communist regimes and the formation of a democratic system. Special attention is paid to the transformation of political values (welfare, freedom, equality, security). The loss of economic and ideological legitimacy of the communist regimes, their collapse lead to the widespread dissemination of a new system of values in society, but at the same time to social anomie, when new individual values contradicts with the old ones