The book of known sociologists’ articles is devoted to valuable horizons, cultural resources, moral representations of the formed community of Russia, its relations with the power and the crowd, the role of intelligency in attempts to reform the Soviet system on a very short on chronology, but critical and important on sense  period of the Russian history (1987–1994). Having begun with research of an active role of the most advanced, pro-democratic adjusted subgroups of intelligency in their attempts of economic and political reforms “from above” (“perestroika”), authors trace processes of decomposition and regeneration of the formed community during the last years of the Soviet regime and at the initial stage of independent Russia formation. There are the materials of polls, the analysis of the press, research of literary texts, cinema and so forth, the data of the state and departmental statistics used in the book.