Abstract
Everyone today recognizes the importance of providing an ideological foundation for the revolutionary restructuring taking place in the country. Everyone also acknowledges that the extremely great changes in the real world, both within our country and beyond its borders, are more rapid and more intensive than changes in the social sciences and in the ideology of the CPSU. Of course this creates a number of focal points of dangerous tension, interferes with the development of a correct policy in decisive areas of social life, and holds back social and political progress. How can the contradiction that has arisen between reality and its reflection in public consciousness be moderated? The question is a complex one and requires a thorough theoretical review.