Chabanna M. The formation of mass society as totalitarianism establishing precondition and the mechanism of its functioning (theoretical-methodological analysis).

The dissertation is the investigation of the theoretical aspects of interconnection between mass society and totalitarianism.There are explored the accomplishments of the theory of totalitarianism and the theory of mass society in the thesis. Accordingly, the author identifies the aggregate of features that is the criteria of political regime's totalitarianity. Also there are investigated the psychological peculiarities of mass society members that enable the establishing of totalitarian dictatorship in the research. The investigation of totalitarianism establishing realized with the examination of the concept of psychological manipulative influence. The goal of this manipulation is getting mass support for totalitarian political power. It is paid attention to the concept of total control that is one of the aims of totalitarian governing in the research. Author researches the connection between the totalitarian manipulation and total control that make decisive influence on the forming of totalitarian consciousness. Therefore the author emphasizes the regime's need in mass society and describes the state power's actions in the context of examination totalitarian methods used for society governing. It should be paid attention to these aspects in the theory of totalitarianism. There are produced the evidences of the dependence of totalitarianism's establishing and functioning on the availability of mass society in the thesis.