Between the past and the future: the values of generations in modern Russia

The article reviews the problems of transformation of generations' values in modern Russia. It analyses dynamics of intergenerational values in the context of everyday practices of work, life and leisure. On the basis of the value aspects of these practices, the study of the values of representatives of the business community, the intellectuals and the working class in several age groups is undertaken. The authors substantiate the important role of historical memory as a medium of translation and transformation of the generations' values. The findings of the regional study conducted in Lipetsk are compared with all-Russian studies. The authors prove the idea of the lack of a clearly expressed conflict of intergenerational values in modern Russia and also confirm the thesis of the relative homogeneity of the intergenerational values' space. The specifics of transformation of intergenerational values among representatives of the business community, the intellectuals and the working class are revealed.