From Cold War to Cold Peace?: A Comparative Empirical Study of Russian and Western Political Cultures

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Peter Ester, Loek Halman, Vladimir Olegovič Rukavišnikov
BRILL, 1997 M01 1 - 254 pages
The cross-national analyses of Western and Russian political cultures presented in this book are partly based on the 1990 EVS data. Another data source comes from surveys that were conducted since the late 1980s by the Department of Social Dynamics of the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISPR RAS) This Volume pictures a wide variety of values in the social and political domain and reveals unique insights in Russian culture. It makes clear that, despite many differences, Russian and Westerners have also many things in common as far as basic values are concerned.
This is the fourth volume in the series. The first book is "The Individualizing Socitey (1993, 1994) edited by Peter Ester, Loek Halman and Ruud de Moor. The second book is "Values in Western Societies (1995) edited by Ruud de Moor. A third book is titled "Political Value Change in Western Democracies (1996) and is edited by Loek Halman and Neil Nevitte.
 

Contents

Data sources
6
Recent socioeconomic changes in Russia
8
Income inequality
17
Wages in Russia
28
Conclusions
35
Chapter
41
Trust in democratic institutions
90
Trust in authoritative institutions
98
The leftright dimension
133
Political party attachment and electoral participation
137
The 1993 parliamentary election
143
The 1995 parliamentary election
147
The 1996 presidential ballot
150
Moving towards the future looking at the past
156
Conclusions
158
Notes
160

Interpersonal trust
101
Conclusions
104
Notes
106
Chapter Four From Scarcity to PostModern Values?
109
The theory of the silent revolution
111
Measuring materialist and postmaterialist orientations
113
Materialism and postmaterialism in 1990
116
The question of comparability
122
What has happened?
126
Conclusions
128
Notes
130
Chapter Five Political Involvement and Voting Behavior
131
Chapter Six National Identity in Russia and the West
165
Nation state and identity
167
Russian society and Russian identity
171
A comparison of Russian and Western identities
175
Identification with Europe and the rest of the world
180
National pride and willingness to fight for ones country
184
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186
Conclusions
190
Introduction
192
Life satisfaction
225
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