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Ethnonationalist and Political Attitudes Among Post-Soviet Youth: The Case of Russia and Ukraine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

John P. Robinson ,
Ted Robert Gurr ,
Erjan Kurbanov ,
Stephen McHale  and
Ivan Slepenkov
John P. Robinson
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
Ted Robert Gurr
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
Erjan Kurbanov
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
Stephen McHale
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
Ivan Slepenkov
Affiliation:
Moscow State University
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For some 70 years, peoples of highly diverse origins and cultures were part of a political system called the Soviet Union. The leadership of the Soviet Union took great pride in attempting to organize that diversity into a “melting pot,” in which citizens of each ethnic background were to enjoy the same basic rights and privileges. Extraordinary political effort was expended by Soviet leaders to promote and advertise the success of this union of equals.

We will provide an empirical assessment of the attitudes of youth in two former Soviet republics, how they now see each other, and how they feel various minorities in each new republic should be treated politically. It involves the use of a common instrument in each of these new states that was designed to measure how each ethnic group feels about the other former Soviet peoples and basic ethnic policies in their own states. In addition, data on a variety of other political and social issues are examined, primarily to examine whether certain quality of life indicators are more positively responded to in a former Soviet republic than in Russia proper.

Type
Research Article
Information
PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , September 1993 , pp. 516 - 521
Copyright
Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1993

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