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What were the main features of Russian public opinion in the recent period? To what extent does one observe continuity, and are there major discontinuities in mass attitudes? What has been the impact of public opinion on post-Soviet politics? And do the findings raise any general theoretical points about the role of public opinion in the transition from communism in Russia?
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Leo Bogart, Silent Politics: Polls and the Awareness of Public Opinion ( NY: John Wiley, 1972 ), p. 75.
Based on empirical data, Jeffrey W. Hahn, ‘Continuity and Change in Russian Political Culture’, British Journal of Political Science, 21, 4 (1991), pp. 393–421.
In a wider theoretical sense, Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (NY: Free Press, 1992);
Dankwart Rustow, ‘Democracy: A Global Revolution’, Foreign Affairs, 69, 4 (1990), p. 75.
See Vera Tolz, ‘The New Role of the Media and Public Opinion Under Gorbachev’, Journal of Communist Studies, 9, 1 (1993), esp. pp. 202–7.
Other versions of the scenario are found in Ralf Dahrendorf, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe (London: Chatto and Windus, 1990), pp. 104–8;
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century (NY: Scribners, 1993),in particular pp. 167–81.
See also Hans Rogger, ‘Afterthoughts’, in Hans Rogger and Eugene Weber (eds), The European Right: A Historical Profile (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965), pp. 577–88.
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Wyman, M. (1997). Public Opinion and Post-Soviet Politics. In: Public Opinion in Postcommunist Russia. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373631_9
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