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Political Culture: A Concept from Ideological Refutation to Acceptance in the Communist Social Sciences

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Cold war and political culture, as in so many titles that oppose two ideas and connect them with ‘and’, are logically not closely interrelated. The cold war was a certain period in the relationship of the two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the USA, dating from the end of the Second World War in 1945 until the end of the Communist systems in 1989/1991, or (if the era of perestroika is no longer counted as the cold war) until 1985.

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von Beyme, K. (2014). Political Culture: A Concept from Ideological Refutation to Acceptance in the Communist Social Sciences. In: On Political Culture, Cultural Policy, Art and Politics. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01559-0_4

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