scholarly journals Dynamics of the Russian population political-ideological orientations in the post-Soviet period

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 582-594
Author(s):  
T. N Yudina ◽  
Yu. N Mazaev ◽  
S. V Babakaev
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Political ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Left Turn ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
Ideological Polarization ◽  
Hybrid Regime ◽  
Post Soviet Period

Under permanent transformations in all spheres of life in the Russian society, the dynamics of the political-ideological views of people, their attitudes to the choice and implementation of the strategic directions of social development become especially important. Russian scientists prefer the ideas of the crisis of liberal ideas, growth of conservatism, left turn, and consider the state ideology a way to overcome the ideological split in the society and to ensure its unity and integrity. At the same time, some opposite tendencies are often ignored in the scientific analysis, which leads to misunderstanding of the real development of the ideological situation in the post-Soviet period. The article aims at filling this gap based on the analysis of the dynamics of the Russians key political-ideological orientations in the last quarter of the century. Based on the empirical data of the sociological monitoring How are you, Russia? and the authors research, the article describes the dynamics of the Russians views, ideological and political orientations. In particular, the study confirmed the hypotheses about the decreasing role of ideology, societys ideological polarization, mosaic ideological views of Russians, and the loss by ideological markers of the political structure of their status of terminal values. The authors conclude that the blurred ideological orientations would not allow the state ideology to overcome the existing eclecticism of ideological views without a contemporary welfare legal state that would replace the hybrid regime.

scholarly journals Assessment of the patriotic self-consciousness of the student youth of the Primorsky Territory

2021 ◽  
pp. 138-153
Author(s):  
Сергей Николаевич Мартышенко
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The State ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Patriotic Education ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Post Soviet Period

Состояние патриотического воспитания молодежи в постсоветский период нуждается в критическом анализе и осмыслении. В современном информационном пространстве многократно возросла активность по негативному влиянию на молодежь. Для разработки эффективных инструментов противодействия информационным атакам на молодежь необходимо проводить постоянный мониторинг социально-политического портрета молодежи в различных регионах страны. Цель исследования состоит в комплексном изучении процесса формирования патриотического сознания и поведения молодежи, как необходимого условия и важнейшей составляющей политической стабилизации современного российского общества. Эмпирической базой исследования послужили данные онлайн опросов студенческой молодежи Приморского края, проведенные в 2019 в 2021 году. Опросы производились с использованием Google-форм в интернет. В опросе приняли участие 1290 респондентов. Оценка состояния патриотических воззрений молодежи позволяет выявить риски и проблемные зоны в процессе реализации патриотического воспитания молодежи. Особое внимание в исследовании уделяется выявлению особенностей социально-политического портрета молодежи Приморского края на основе анализа отношения молодежи региона к некоторым устойчивым выражениям, связанным с темой патриотизма. По результатам исследования можно сделать вывод о том, что в настоящее время уровень патриотического воспитания молодежи нельзя признать вполне соответствующим современным вызовам. The state of patriotic education of young people in the post-Soviet period needs critical analysis and comprehension. In the modern information space, the activity on the negative impact on youth has increased many times over. To develop effective tools to counter information attacks on young people, it is necessary to constantly monitor the socio-political portrait of young people in various regions of the country. The aim of the research is to comprehensively study the process of forming patriotic consciousness and behavior of young people, as a necessary condition and the most important component of the political stabilization of modern Russian society. The empirical basis of the study was the data of online surveys of student youth of the Primorsky kray, conducted in 2019 in 2021. Surveys were conducted using Google forms on the Internet. 1290 respondents took part in the survey. Assessment of the state of patriotic views of young people makes it possible to identify risks and problem areas in the process of implementing patriotic education of young people. The study pays special attention to identifying the features of the socio-political portrait of young people in Primorsky kray based on the analysis of the attitude of young people in the region to some stable expressions associated with the theme of patriotism. According to the results of the study, it can be concluded that at present the level of patriotic education of young people cannot be recognized as fully consistent with modern challenges.

scholarly journals The Role of Personality Traits in Assessing the State of the Russian Society by Persons with Different Economic Behaviour

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-43
Author(s):  
M. Gagarina
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Subjective Quality Of Life ◽  
Personal Traits ◽  
Economic Behaviour ◽  
The Impact

The article describes what indicators of the condition of society are used in Russia and abroad. Publications in which happiness, subjective economic well-being, life satisfaction, subjective quality of life and others are considered in this capacity, are reviewed. The question of the role of personality traits in assessing the situation in the country is raised, as well as the impact of these assessments on the economic behaviour of citizens. The results of the empirical study of 260 subjects using questionnaires, which include questions about the political, psychological, social, economic situation in the country, economic behaviour and psycho-diagnostic tests, are presented. The interrelations of assessments of the political and psychological situation in the country with personal traits and debt behaviour are revealed. Extraversion and openness to experience are negatively, and conscientiousness is positively interconnected with positive assessments of the state of the Russian society. The differences in assessments of the state of the Russian society among respondents with different investment preferences are described.

The Image of Russia in Contemporary Russian Society: Political and Psychological Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1 and 2-2018) ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Elena Shestopal
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Period ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Projective Tests ◽  
The Core ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
International Role ◽  
Core Features ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article is based on the results of a study of Russian citizens’ perception of their country. More than 500 in-depth interview and nearly the same number of projective tests from 15 Russian regions became the basis for political-psychological analysis. These data enabled to identify the core features of Russia’s image in Russian mentality. This image includes reflections of authorities, leaders, the population, territory and the international role of the country in the country’s perception. The results confirm the conclusion that territorial expansionism is not typical for Russians. Authorities’ perception is an important component of the country’s image. Citizens' mistrust to the state was revealed. This allows us to suggest that Russian society still has not overcome the negative processes that started in the 1980s and led to a serious complex of “national inferiority” in the post-Soviet period.

scholarly journals The place and role of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in the state system of Tajikistan

2016 ◽  
pp. 83-96
Author(s):  
P. B. Parshin
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
The State ◽  
State System ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
Confessional Identity ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The paper suggests a description of the place occupied in Tajikistan by the largest and less populated territory of the republic, namely Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, inhabited mostly by relative to Tajiks Pamiri peoples that possess ethnic and confessional identity of their own and speak about a dozen of Easter Iranian languages. A part of the region is also inhabited by a small number of nomadic Kyrgyz clans. The role of the region and its population in the history, economic and political development of Tajikistan, especially in post-Soviet period, as well as its future potential and possible threats to its peoples are considered at some length.

scholarly journals Studying the History of Political and Lgal Doctrines in Russian Jurisprudence in the 20th — Early 21st Century: Conditions, Directions, Results

Lex Russica ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 130-142
Author(s):  
A. V. Kornev
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Early Date ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Federation

The paper is devoted to the role of the history of political and legal ideas in state construction, science and education. In this aspect, the problems related to amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation initiated by the President of the Russian Federation are considered. According to the author, these initiatives are a logical continuation of the planned changes in the political system, the mechanism (apparatus) of the state, the system of local self-government, contained in the most general form in the annual address of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly. Such an early date for the address, the subsequent submission of the draft Federal Law to the State Duma without delay, and the work on implementing the provisions contained in it, leave no doubt that there is some strategy for Russia’s political development in the near future. In this regard, an assessment of the political situation in modern Russia is given and suggestions are made regarding the further evolution of the institutions of society and the state. The dialectical relationship between the national development model and its ideological justification is argued. The author emphasizes the special role of ideas in the history of Russian statehood. In addition, the paper reflects the assessment of the history of political and legal doctrines in the system of social sciences and legal education in the Soviet and post-Soviet period. There is evidence of the need to increase the role of theoretical and historical disciplines in the context of modern "hybrid" war and the strengthening of global competition for major geopolitical projects. The idea of reorienting Russian legal education from the study of legislation, which is changing so quickly that it does not actually take the form of knowledge, to the study of law in all its manifestations as a universal regulator of public relations.

Russian Parliamentarism Party Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 245-255
Author(s):  
Rostislav F. Turovsky
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Managerial Positions ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article is devoted to the study of the party model of Russian parliamentarism in post-soviet period. The focus is on the issues of party representation and its correlation with the distribution of the managerial positions and introduction of collective legislation at State Duma. These issues are examined from the point of view of reaching cross-party consensus and implementation of fair parliament party representation principle. According to the author Russian parliamentarism model aims at reaching full-fledged party consensus that corresponds better to the principles of popular representation than strict parliament polarization along the line of “authority-opposition”. Understanding of those issues by the majority of the players was noted from the very start of the State Duma activities, in spite of the acute conflicts in the 1990-ies.The author draws the conclusion that the equation of party representation continues to grow at the level of managerial positions in the parliament that allows to improve cooperation of the parties and to reduce authority and opposition conflicts. Thereby the Russian parliamentarism model makes an important contribution to the stabilization of socio-political situation of the country.

POST-SOVIET CITY AS A PALIMPSEST

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-68
Author(s):  
Elena A. Kosovan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
The Coordinator ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The author of the publication reviews the photobook “Palimpsests”, published in 2018 in the publishing house “Ad Marginem Press” with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. The book presents photos of post-Soviet cities taken by M. Sher. Preface, the author of which is the coordinator of the “Democracy” program of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Russia N. Fatykhova, as well as articles by M. Trudolyubov and K. Bush, which accompany these photos, contain explanation of the peculiarities of urban space formation and patterns of its habitation in the Soviet Union times and in the post-Soviet period. The author of the publication highly appreciates the publication under review. Analyzing the photographic works of M. Sher and their interpretation undertaken in the articles, the author of the publication agrees with the main conclusions of N. Fatykhova, M. Trudolyubov and K. Bush with regards to the importance of the role of the state in the processes of urban development and urbanization in the Soviet and post-Soviet space, but points out that the second factor that has a key influence on these processes is ownership relations. The paper positively assesses the approach proposed by the authors of the photobook to the study of the post-Soviet city as an architectural and landscape palimpsest consisting mainly of two layers, “socialist” and “capitalist”. The author of the publication specifically emphasizes the importance of analyzing the archetypal component of this palimpsest, pointing out that the articles published in the reviewed book do not pay sufficient attention to this issue. Particular importance is attributed by the author to the issue of metageography of post-Soviet cities and meta-geographical approach to their exploration. Emphasizing that the urban palimpsest is a system of realities, each in turn including a multitude of ideas, meanings, symbols, and interpretations, the author points out that the photobook “Palimpsests” is actually an invitation to a scientific game with space, which should start a new direction in the study of post-Soviet urban space.

Turbulent Property Rights

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hazel Gray
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
High Growth ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Land Markets ◽  
Export Agriculture ◽  
Key Sectors ◽  
Political Settlement

This chapter explores the role of the political settlement in shaping outcomes of land investments by analysing struggles in key sectors of the economy. Land reform during the socialist period had far-reaching implications for the political settlement. Reforms to land rights under liberalization involved strengthening land markets; however, the state continued to play a significant role. Corruption within formal land management systems became prevalent during the period of high growth. Vietnam experienced a rapid growth in export agriculture but, in contrast with stable property rights for smallholders, Tanzania’s efforts to encourage large land investments were less successful. Industrialization in both countries generated new forms of land struggles that were influenced by the different distributions of power between the state, existing landowners, and investors.

The Saint with Indra's Sword: Khruubaa Srivichai and Buddhist Millenarianism in Northern Thailand

2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 681-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Bowie
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The State ◽  
Capital City ◽  
The Political ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Modern Context ◽  
A Charge ◽  
Social Causes

AbstractDespite a growing literature revealing the presence of millenarian movements in both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist societies, scholars have been remarkably reluctant to consider the role of messianic beliefs in Buddhist societies. Khruubaa Srivichai (1878–1938) is the most famous monk of northern Thailand and is widely revered as atonbun, or saint. Althoughtonbunhas been depoliticized in the modern context, the term also refers to a savior who is an incarnation of the coming Maitreya Buddha. In 1920 Srivichai was sent under arrest to the capital city of Bangkok to face eight charges. This essay focuses on the charge that he claimed to possess the god Indra's sword. Although this charge has been widely ignored, it was in fact a charge of treason. In this essay, I argue that the treason charge should be understood within the context of Buddhist millenarianism. I note the saint/savior tropes in Srivichai's mytho-biography, describe the prevalence of millenarianism in the region, and detail the political economy of the decade of the 1910s prior to Srivichai's detention. I present evidence to show that the decade was characterized by famine, dislocation, disease, and other disasters of both natural and social causes. Such hardships would have been consistent with apocalyptic omens in the Buddhist repertoire portending the advent of Maitreya. Understanding Srivichai in this millenarian context helps to explain both the hopes of the populace and the fears of the state during that tumultuous decade.

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