This article is based on a report presented at the Scientific Session of the RAS General Meeting (Moscow, December 15, 2021). The reaction of society to the pandemic in Russia and other countries of the world is analyzed from an anthropological point of view. The features of the behavior and psychological reaction of residents of different regions, professional groups, and ethnocultural communities are considered with account for gender, age, and cultural characteristics (collectivism‒individualism, looseness‒tightness, power distance). Particular attention is paid to phobias and social activity during the pandemic; the growing role of nation-states in overcoming the consequences of the pandemic is discussed. The results presented can be used as an additional source of information for taking effective measures finally to overcome the pandemic and, most importantly, its negative social and political consequences.
Keywords: Russia; anxiety and distress; coronavirus pandemic; cross-cultural studies; empathy; pandemic phobias; social activism; the role of the state.
© Pleiades Publishing, Ltd. 2022, ISSN 1019-3316, Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2022, Vol. 92, No. 4, pp. 520–530. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2022.Russian Text © The Author(s), 2022, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2022, Vol. 92, No. 8, pp. 790–802.