Collaborative Research on Generational Change and Support for the Soviet System

本研究探讨代际变化的性质和程度 在苏联人民中， 他们对政治制度的支持。 调查人员 重新分析来自苏联难民的“哈佛项目”的数据， 在1950年代初进行，并复制和重新评估一些 原始分析的主要结果。 此外，该项目还吸引了 对20世纪70年代末和70年代初苏联移民的两次调查 20世纪80年代：苏联采访项目（SIP）普查I和 跟进学校改善工程计划一般调查II。 哈佛项目的发现揭示了一个重要的一代 人们对斯大林统治下的苏维埃制度的看法有很大的差距。 年轻 受过高等教育的人是最支持苏联体制的人， 斯大林。 最近的采访表明，这种模式可能是 颠倒了 苏联的其他资料来源， 各群体在政治支持方面的代际分歧 在人口中是最小的。 这项调查应该提供新的 了解重要持不同政见者的政治态度 在苏联的元素超时通过复制的调查结果， 哈佛项目和重新审视政治中的代际分裂 支持.

This study examines the nature and extent of intergenerational change among variously disaffected members of the Soviet population in regard to their support for political institutions. The investigators reanalyze data from the "Harvard Project" of Soviet refugees, which was conducted in the early 1950's, and replicate and reassess some of the key findings of the original analysis. In addition the project draws on two surveys of Soviet emigrants from the late 1970's and early 1980's: the Soviet Interview Project (SIP) General Survey I and the follow.up SIP General Survey II. The findings of the Harvard Project revealed a significant generation gap in the way people viewed the Soviet system under Stalin. The young and highly educated were the most supportive of the Soviet system under Stalin. More recent interviews suggest that this pattern may have been reversed. Alternative Soviet sources for analyzing the intergenerational cleavages in political support manifested by groups in the population are minimal. This investigation should provide new understanding of the political attitudes of significant dissident elements in the USSR overtime by replicating the findings of the Harvard project and reexamining the generational cleavages in political support.