By the material of the Volgograd region there is considered the evolution of political moods of its inhabitants in the 1990s, analyzed the factors of influence and substantiated the priority of influence of social and economic situation in the region, which became worse in the course of radical reforms of the liberal character. In the middle of the 1990s among the greatest part of the population there was noted the nostalgia for the Soviet “stability” and the growth of pro-communist moods that provided the political leadership to the Volgograd communists. However, the political conservatism proclaimed itself at the end of the 1990s.