Emerging Coalitions in the Soviet All-Union and Republican Legislatures

1989年和1990年，苏联几十年来首次举行竞争性选举。随后召开的全联盟和共和党立法机构也首次以公开的政治辩论、非一致投票和立法者的公开投票为特色。随着共产党的削弱，这些立法机构的种族分裂已经开始明显。各民族利益代表能否以及如何建立有效的政治联盟或组建有效的政党，不仅关系到苏联民主的未来，也关系到更广泛的关于立法联盟建设的社会科学理论。本研究将分析苏联立法机构政治联盟的形成和演变。该项目将侧重于种族分裂如何与不同的政治和解和对抗模式以及不同的政党组建模式联系在一起。将收集关于全联盟立法机构和五个联盟共和国立法机构议员投票决定的数据。除了为目前的研究提供基础外，这些数据还将为未来对追踪苏联民主化进程感兴趣的各种研究提供宝贵的数据。

In 1989 and 1990, competitive elections were held in the Soviet Union for the first time in decades. The all-Union and republican legislatures that subsequently were convened also feature, again for the first time, open political debate, non-unanimous voting, and recorded public votes by the legislators. With the weakening of the Communist Party, ethnic cleavages have begun to be apparent in these legislatures. Whether and how the representatives of various ethnic interests are able to build effective political coalitions or form effective political parties is of extreme interest not only to the future of democracy in the Soviet Union but also to social scientific theories about legislative coalition building more generally. This research will analyze the formation and evolution of political alliances in soviet legislatures. The project will focus on the way in which ethnic cleavages become associated both with different patterns of political accommodation and confrontation, and with different patterns of party formation. Data will be collected on the voting decisions of legislators in the all-Union legislature and in the legislatures of five union republics. In addition to providing the basis for the current study, the data will provide valuable data for a variety of future studies interested in tracking the process of democratization in the Soviet Union.