Post‐Soviet political culture in Russia
An assessment of recent empirical investigations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12298985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frederic J Fleron (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225-260 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Europe Asia Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-8136 • E-ISSN: 1465-3427 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09668139608412345 |
| OpenAlex | W2064314042 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 95 |
AT A TIME WHEN THE WORLD SEEMS HEADED toward 'the clash of civilisations' and 'the great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural',1 we must make renewed efforts to comprehend the significance of cultural factors for politics in the countries of the former Soviet Union. The concept 'political culture' has been much used and abused in the study of Soviet politics in recent decades. Some attempts were made 25 years ago to bring rigour to the concept by linking the study of political culture in communist countries to the works of anthropologists and political scientists.2 While this early effort at bridge-building between area and discipline proved to be both interesting and stimulating of new ideas and approaches, its promise in Soviet studies could not be realised in the absence of systematic empirical data to test hypotheses. The best that could be done under the circumstances was to rely heavily on interviews with Soviet emigres.3 Initial optimism about use of the political culture concept gave rise in the 1980s to infighting and soul-searching.4 The new data-rich environment of the post-Soviet era challenges us to test theories that heretofore have lain dormant because of 'obstacles to direct observation' that forced scholars to practice anthropology from afar or to engage in flights of fancy through historical extrapolation.5 This article examines the strengths and weaknesses of some recent empirical research on post-Soviet political culture in Russia in order to strengthen further bridge-building efforts to the benefit of both social science and post-Sovietology.6
Art · Economic system · Economics · Literature · Political culture · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Russian culture · Sociology · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Soviet and Russian History
Coercion, compliance, and the collapse of the Soviet command economy
Public Opinion in New Democracies
It all does not matter that much in the European Union’—Migrant Transnationalism and the Transformation of Post-Communist Citizenship Discourse
Understanding multi‐party choice
Generational Differences in Russian Attitudes towards Democracy and the Economy
Remythologising the Russian state
Discourses on rurality in post-socialist news media
A Sober Second Thought
Democracy and Grassroots Opposition in Eastern Europe
National Identity and Public Support for Political and Economic Reform in Ukraine
Attitudes toward Individual Responsibility and Political Reform in the Former Soviet Union
The Third Rome and The End of History
The Politics of Professionalism in Russia
Social capital in civic and stressful societies
Personality and Political Tolerance
Emerging Party Systems in Post-Soviet Societies
Support for Democracy and Political Opposition in Russia, 1993-1995
Surveying Attitudes in Russia
Ukraine’s 1994 elections as an economic event
Trust and the politics of postcommunism
Comrades into Citizens? Russian Political Culture and Public Support for the Transition
Thinking about Democracy
Mass Opposition to the Soviet Putsch of August 1991
Communism, conformity, and civil liberties
The geography of nationalism in Russia and the USSR
Nationalism
Regarding Politics
How Russia Is Ruled
The Soviet Citizen
The pervasive effects of family on entrepreneurship
Beliefs, attitudes, and values
Sociologists, economists and democracy
The Soviet Union
Public Opinion and Regime Change
The Clash of Civilizations
Capitalist Development and Democracy
Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR
The Soviet Union and Social Science Theory
Political Culture and Communist Studies
The Domestic Context of Soviet Foreign Policy
Political Culture and Soviet Politics
Russia’s Road to Democracy
Attitude as a Scientific Concept
Stalinism
Russian political culture
The Western Connection
Mass response to transformation in post‐communist societies
Soviet area studies and the social sciences
Personality, behaviour and communist ideology
Understanding Political Change in Post-Soviet Societies
The Silence of Muscovy
Russian Political Culture and the Post-Revolutionary Impasse
Soviet Attitudes toward Authority
"Muscovite Political Folkways" and the Problem of Russian Political Culture
Comrade Criminal
Soviet Society and Culture
The Influence of Russian Tradition on the Political Style of the Soviet Elite
Political culture and communist studies
The global resurgence of democracy
Soviet Attitudes Toward Authority
Observations on Contemporary Russi Behaviour
Modal Personality and Adjustment to the Soviet Socio-Political System
The Old Russian Legacy
Soviet Society and Culture
After Leninism
Soviet Political Culture and “Covert Participation” in Policy Implementation
The Elite Variable in Democratic Transitions and Breakdowns
Causes of the Collapse of the USSR
Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics
Democratic Values and the Transformation of the Soviet Union
Economic Chaos and the Fragility of Democratic Transition in Former Communist Regimes
Public Behavior and Political Change in Post-Soviet States
The Russian Election of 1993
Sovietology and Russian History
Attitudes Toward Reform Among Provincial Russian Politicians
The Russian Election of 1993
Citizen Activism in the Russian Transition
Comparing Forms of Comparative Analysis
Mass and Elite Political Outlooks in Post-Soviet Russia
Three Paradoxes of Democracy
A Cause in Search of Its Effect, or What Does Political Culture Explain
A Mile Wide But an Inch Deep
Issues in the Study of Political Culture – The Example of Communist Party States
Continuity and Change in Russian Political Culture
Political Values in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania
Transitions to Democracy
Culture, Political Culture, and Communist Society
Society Transformed? Rethinking the Social Roots of Perestroika
How the Soviet System Works
Soviet Attitudes Towards Authority
Technology and Communist Culture
Reassessing Mass Support for Political and Economic Change in the Former USSR
Redefining the Political System of the USSR
Measuring Value Change in Western Industrialized Societies
Political Culture and Political Preferences
Economic Security and Value Change
An Organizational Approach to the Study of Political Culture in Marxist-Leninist Systems
Attitudes toward Individual Responsibility and Political Reform in the Former Soviet Union
The Clash of Civilizations
Muscovite Political Folkways
Civic Culture and Democracy
The Transformation of Political Culture in Cuba
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,77 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2017 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |