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The author shows that, in the framework of an alternative version of the Soviet «non-consumptive modern», there was accumulated a potential which allowed the country to start a focal institutional and personal modernization after the war, to become a society aspiring to post-industrial development. This breakthrough was achieved because of total civil initiative activity of the part of the people involved into the process of rising individuation in the sphere of science and education. However, by that time in the country, the erosion of the institutions that supported the possibility of a «social elevator» began as a result of blocking the transformation of a mature order of limited access to an order of open access. In these circumstances, power was taken by a passionate group focused on «everyday prosperity» and the distribution/redistribution of the natural resources rent. At the same time, the part of the society that had risen to the level of the ascending individualization had an innovative intellectual and moral potential and could create a critical mass of the social base of the reforms remained unclaimed by the reformers. A significant number of the bearers of this potential falls into the subalterna position: «a state of abandonment», «put off subjectivity», «borderline consciousness». Moreover, the growth of centric processes determines subalternization also of the bearers of prevailing consciousness. In modern Russia there is a hidden human potential focused on innovative (post-industrial) development, the bearers of which without any horizontal relationships are objects of subalternization. This concerns not only the modernizers «from below» but also those who try to drive the innovative development only «from above».