Citizens in the Making in Post Soviet States 1st Edition by Olena Nikolayenko 0415596041 9780415596046
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ISBN 10: 0415596041
ISBN 13: 9780415596046
Author: Olena Nikolayenko
The political outlook of young people in the countries of the former Soviet Union is crucial to their countries’ future political development. This is particularly relevant now as the first generation without firsthand experience of communism at first hand is approaching adulthood. Based on extensive original research and including new survey research amongst young people, this book examines young people’s political outlook in countries of the former Soviet Union; it compares and contrasts Russia, where authoritarianism has begun to reassert itself, and Ukraine, which experienced a democratic breakthrough in the aftermath of the Orange Revolution. The book examines questions such as: How supportive is this new generation of the new political order? What images of the Soviet Union prevail in the minds of young people? How much trust does youth place in current political and public institutions? Addressing these questions is crucial to understanding the extent to which the current regimes can survive on the wave of public support. The book argues that Russian adolescents tend to place more trust in the incumbent president and harbour more regrets about the disintegration of the Soviet Union than their peers in Ukraine; it demonstrates that young people distrust political parties and politicians, and that patriotic education shapes social and political values.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Argument
Mechanism
Sources of policy differences
Why study adolescents?
The concept of political support
Case selection
Methods of investigation
Roadmap
Attitudes toward democracy
Adolescents’ support for democracy
Contested meanings of democracy
Conclusion
Trust in authorities
Who do adolescents trust?
The link between interpersonal trust and political trust
Political and order-related institutions through adolescents’ eyes
Conclusion
Building the new political community, remembering the old one
National pride among adolescents
Sources of national pride
Reasons for low national pride
Imagining the Soviet Union
Adolescents’ attitudes toward the dissolution of the Soviet Union
The image of the Soviet Union in adolescents’ eyes
Communism: a dark page in modern history
Sources of nostalgia for the Soviet Union
Past and present intertwined: Soviet nostalgia and national pride
Conclusion
Learning about politics
Family
Mass media
Media development in Russia
Media development in Ukraine
Adolescents’ news media consumption
Schools
The Soviet educational system
De-communization in the post-Soviet education system?
Adolescents’ conversations with the teacher
Conclusion
Construction of Soviet history in school textbooks
Inclusion and omission in history textbooks
The formation of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union
World War II
The Holodomor in Ukraine
Pictorial analysis
Documentary analysis
Conclusion
Growing up, but growing apart
Sources of attitudinal differences
The importance of patriotic education
The persistence of regional cleavages
Implications for the survival of the non-democratic regime
Implications for Russian–Ukrainian relations
Appendix A
Appendix B
Notes
Bibliography
Russian-language sources
Ukrainian-language sources
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