Cultural Values and the Transformation of the Soviet Union

近年来，苏联和东欧 以惊人的速度经历了重大的变化。 虽然这可能是 期望文化中的政治价值观影响过程 关于变更的法律的 苏联的政治文化。 本研究 这是一个独特而重要的机会， 理解普通人的信仰、价值观和态度 公民决定着变革的速度和可能性。 这项研究的核心是对更大范围内的公众舆论进行调查。 莫斯科。 预计约有500名受访者 将在长达一小时的会议中接受面对面的采访。 而 该研究小组是一个由美国学者组成的跨学科小组， 数据收集本身将在 国家科学院社会学研究所所长。 这项研究预计几个贡献。 一是 应该能够制定一个主要属性的概况， 苏联的法律的和政治文化。 第二，应允许 测试各种关于苏联起源的假设 价值观 第三，这些调查数据应该有助于 对价值内容差异的探索性分析， 苏联、西欧和 美国的 最后，调查将非常有用， 为研究政治进程建立基线数据 改变未来。

Within recent years the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have undergone major changes at a dramatic pace. While it might be expected that political values in a culture influence processes of change, there is little systematic knowledge about the legal and political culture of the Soviet Union. This research constitutes a unique and important opportunity to advance our understanding of how beliefs, values, and attitudes of ordinary citizens structure both the pace and the possibility of change. The core of the study is a survey of public opinion in greater Moscow. It is anticipated that approximately 500 respondents will be interviewed face-to-face in hour long sessions. While the research team is an interdisciplinary group of U.S. scholars, the data collection itself will be performed under the direction of the Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences. This research anticipates several contributions. First, it should enable developing a profile of the major attributes of Soviet legal and political culture. Second, it should permit testing a variety of hypotheses about the origins of Soviet values. Third, these survey data should lend themselves to exploratory analyses of the differences in value content and structure between the Soviet Union, Western Europe, and the United States. Finally, the survey will be extremely useful in establishing baseline data for studying processes of political change in the future.