Abstract: The subject of this research is the verbal utterances of respondents regarding the modern Russian state examined through the quantitative method of analysis. The object of this research is the personified images of the Russian state establishing within the mass political consciousness of the citizens. The author examines the content and specificity of images of the state that form not only at the rational level of perception, but also unconscious, affected by the emotional attitude towards the problematic of the research. The images, described in accordance with the results of analysis, reflect the general representations of respondents about the modern state, its structure, specificity, and relationship with the society. The work is based on the method of incomplete sentences that allows acquiring information about an object, which forms on the rational and unconscious level of political perception. The scientific novelty, first and foremost, consists in the results of the conducted research that determines and describes the personified images of the modern Russian state establishing within the mass political consciousness. The results of analysis can be valuable in the area of political-psychological, political, legal, and sociological science.

Abstract: The subject of this research is the politico-psychological analysis of mass consciousness, focused on comprehension of the political leaders, whose ruling period is marked as a pinnacle of the Russian State. The object of the analysis lies in opinion of the Russian citizens involved in the survey. The goal of the work implies the examination of political preferences of the respondents mediated in representations about the leaders of the Russian State. The survey was conducted by the department of Sociology and Psychology of Politics of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University over the period from March to September of 2013. The study involved 868 people and balanced in accordance with the gender, age, education, and region of residence of the respondents. The following politicians became the leaders of public opinion: Peter the Great (35.8%); Catherine the Great (27.9%); V. V. Putin (25.5%); Alexander II (15.7%). The scientific novelty consists in the newly introduced data into the scientific discourse. The acquired results allow making a conclusion about the public request upon the strong state and authority. In addition, the preference for the aforementioned leaders indirectly underlines the positive perception by mass consciousness of the factors of power and military might. The results of this survey can be implemented in politological and sociological research and forecasts.