title: APPROACHING THE RUSSIAN SOUL: CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE IMAGE OF NATIONAL LEADER THROUGH PECULIAR FEATURES OF RUSSIAN NATIONAL MENTALITY
abstract: The Thesis considers the question of reasons for a higher public appeal of national leaders with the case study of popular appeal of the President Vladimir Putin among the Russian population. The concepts of nation and national mentality are contemplat-ed to reveal the process of construction of the image of a national leader. In the thesis the author considers the issues of nation and the process of its formation; constructivist and primordialistic approaches to the nature of nationalism and pr
journal: UTUPub (University of Turku)