Collaborative Research on Generational Change and Support for the Soviet System

本研究考察了苏联人口中不同心怀不满的成员在支持政治制度方面的代际变化的性质和程度。研究者们重新分析了1950年代早期进行的苏联难民“哈佛计划”的数据，并复制和重新评估了原始分析的一些关键发现。此外，该项目还借鉴了20世纪70年代末和80年代初对苏联移民的两次调查：苏联访谈项目（SIP）第一次一般性调查和以下调查。完成SIP综合调查II。哈佛计划的调查结果揭示了人们对斯大林统治下的苏联体制的看法存在显著的代沟。受过高等教育的年轻人是最支持斯大林统治下的苏联体制的。最近的采访表明，这种模式可能已经被逆转了。分析人口中各群体在政治支持方面表现出的代际分歧的其他苏联来源很少。这项调查应该通过复制哈佛项目的发现和重新检查政治支持的代际分裂，为苏联重要持不同政见者的政治态度提供新的理解。

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.