The purpose of the study: to conceptualize the late Soviet social imagination of several significant sociocultural groups that "produce" ideas of the (better) future and guidelines, forecasts to get a systematic idea of ​ ​ the most important ideas, concepts, "idioms," metaphors and images of the future of this period (and, if possible, build a typology of ways of "social imagination of the 80s - early 1990s.").