Political Culture and Post-Communism

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by  Stephen Whitefield (eds.)

Political Culture and
Post-Communism
Edited by
Stephen Whitefield
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1.Political culture – Russia (Federation) – Congresses.2.Post-
communism – Russia (Federation) – Congresses.3.Russia (Federation) –
Politics and government – 1991 – Congresses.I.Brown,Archie,1938–.
II.Whitefield,Stephen.III.St.Antony’s series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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To Pat and Archie Brown
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Contents
List of Tables ix
Preface x
Notes on Contributors xii
1 Political Culture and Post-Communism 1
Stephen Whitefield
2 Myths about Russian Political Culture and the Study
of Russian History 15
Alexander Lukin and Pavel Lukin
3 Partial Adaptation and Political Culture 42
Richard Sakwa
4 Culture, Context, Violence: Eurasia in
Comparative Perspective 64
Charles King
5 Bringing Culture Back into Political Analysis: The Reform
of the Russian Judiciary 81
Mary McAuley
6 Political Culture, Post-Communism and Disciplinary
Normalisation: Towards Theoretical Reconstruction 105
Stephen Welch
7 Culture, Experience, and State Identity: A
Survey-Based Analysis of Russians, 1995–2003 125
Stephen Whitefield
8 Yaroslavl’ Revisited: Assessing Continuity and
Change in Russian Political Culture Since 1990 148
Jeffrey W. Hahn
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9 Conclusions 180
Archie Brown
References 203
Index 222
List of Tables
7.1 Identification with Russia or the Soviet
Union 132
7.2 Regression of Soviet or Russian political
identification on to social demographic and
identity variables 135
7.3 Regression of Soviet or Russian political
identification on to cultural and experiential
factors 136
7.4 Regression of Soviet or Russian political identification
on to cultural and experiential factors plus year
dummies (standardised coefficients). Pooled analysis 141
8.1 Comparative political efficacy measures for local
and national government in Yaroslavl’, 1990, 1993,
1996 and 2004 159
8.2 Comparative measures of political trust for local
and national government in Yaroslavl’, 1990, 1993,
1996 and 2004 160
8.3 Comparative levels of popular support for
democratic elections in Yaroslavl’ 1990, 1993,
1996 and 2004 166
8.4 Effect of assessments of economic performance
on political attitudes; Yaroslavl’, Russia, 1996
(N(cid:3)962); 2004 (N(cid:3)1132). The correlation
statistics for 1996 are reported above those for
2004 in each case 170
8.5 Attitudes related to political reform in
Yaroslavl’; 1993 and 1996, 2004 172
8.6 Attitudes related to economic reform:
Yaroslavl’ 1993 and 1996, 2004 173
8.7 Assessments of economic performance
on support for political and economic reforms,
Yaroslavl’, Russia, 1996 (N(cid:3)962); 2004 (N(cid:3)1132).
The correlation statistics for 1996 are reported above
those for 2004 in each case 174
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