When the Soviet Union collapsed, most Russians had lived their entire lives in a quintessentially authoritarian culture. Having been socialized in this environment, how could citizens acquire the attitudes and behaviors necessary to support a new, more pluralistic regime? Cultural theories of political learning emphasize the primacy of childhood socialization and hold that altering initial atti...

This article provides an overview of a sociological study of the views of 338 drug addiction treatment professionals. A comparison is drawn between the bioethical approaches of Russian and foreign experts from 18 countries. It is concluded that the bioethical priorities of Russian and foreign experts differ significantly. Differences involve attitudes toward confidentiality, informed consent, c...

This essay is essentially divided into three parts. The first part is going to focus on early Soviet attitudes towards the Russian language itself, followed by a discussion of the early Soviet policies regarding non-Russian languages in the second part. The gradual shift away from the liberal language policies of the 1920s towards the new policies emerging in the late 1930s, overtly imposing Ru...

This study explored cross-cultural differences between Japan and Russia in terms of women’s body images, proneness to eating disorders, and the effects of dichotomous thinking. Participants included 419 Japanese and 187 Russian college women who completed the Dichotomous Thinking Inventory (DTI), the 26-item version of the Eating Attitudes Test, and responses regarding nine figures representing...

This report explores the Russian public demand for internet freedom. Produced by Erik Nisbet with the Center for Global Communication Studies and the Russian Public Opinion Research Center, the study seeks to uncover attitudes and opinions about internet regulation, censorship of online content, and the potential for citizen mobilization and protest. Key findings from the report include: • Almo...

Studies of protest attitudes among young people have recently acquired great scientific research significance. Youth activity is an indicator public sentiment and reflects the level socio-political tension in society. Within framework this study, main task to study nature dynamics modern Russian youth, identify awareness about protests country, their willingness participate them, opinions possi...

Values and attitudes towards the regional integration process of the Russian political elites are considered as an indication of what regional integration (RI) tends to be and how it evolves over time. This paper suggests how to systematically grasp and integrate elite’s attitude into the analysis of RI by means of text network analysis. The text network analysis allows one to visualize the mea...

BACKGROUND In the post-Soviet period, Russian working-age men have suffered unusually high mortality rates. Earlier quantitative work found that part of this is attributable to hazardous and harmful patterns of alcohol consumption, which increased in the period of transition at a time of massive social and economic disruption and uncertainty. However, there has been very little work done to doc...

The study of the axiological problems in literary studies is a fundamental direction of modern Russian Philology. In this paper, we will first conside, the search process for the orientations of values of Russian writers of the classical period of Russian literature in the 19th century; and second, the spiritual themselves foundations as ideological constants of the writers. The pursuit of Russ...