Collaborative Research on Generational Change and Support for the Soviet System

这项研究考察了苏联民众中不同程度不满的人在他们对政治机构的支持方面代际变化的性质和程度。调查人员重新分析了20世纪50年代初进行的苏联难民“哈佛计划”的数据，并复制和重新评估了最初分析的一些关键发现。此外，该项目利用了20世纪70年代末的S和80年代初的S对苏联移民进行的两项调查：苏联访谈项目一般调查一和后续的苏联访问项目一般调查二。哈佛项目的调查结果显示，人们对斯大林统治下的苏联制度的看法存在明显的代沟。年轻人和受过高等教育的人是斯大林统治下最支持苏联制度的人。最近的采访表明，这种模式可能已经逆转。分析人口群体所表现出的政治支持的代际分裂的苏联替代来源很少。这项调查应该会通过复制哈佛项目的发现并重新审视政治支持的代沟，让人们对苏联重要持不同政见者的政治态度有了新的了解。

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.