Monday, April 23, 2012

Scientists have found the Russians nostalgic xenophobes

The mood of today's Russians are similar to the sentiments of the Weimar Republic: all sectors of society imbued with xenophobia and yearn for the power of the Soviet Union, follows from the work of political scientists of the Higher School of Economics: phantom nostalgia for empire was revealed even in children born after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
For twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian society has become a consumer society, but a democratic society in Russia has not appeared, the authors of the study ... Ru ») Valeri and Anna Sorokina Kasamara of the Higher School of Economics ( HSE ).



In modern Russians easily distinguished symptoms of the authoritarian syndrome.

the authors write. The authoritarian syndrome is seen in the authoritarian personality - the antipode of the democratic. Democratic identity of the authors define as the person responsible is not boyaschuyusya problems, not hoping for help from ... Dr.. Such a person is characterized by a ...

One of the hallmarks of an authoritarian syndrome - the need for the Russians ...

the researchers. This demonstrates the need for polls: according to the December survey, ...

The Russians openly unfriendly to other countries - is yet another sign of an authoritarian syndrome, according to a study. In January of this year, 70% of Russians told pollsters ...

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the researchers. In March of this year, ...

The Russians want the restoration of Soviet power, this ... About distrust each other saying up to 70 % of Russians say polls.

... Thus, the usual Moscow schoolchildren born after 1991, see Russia as ...

At the same time, interviewed students nostalgic for the ...

noted in the study.

The main enemy of the Russian students believe the U.S. is not giving ... To overthrow the U.S. from its pedestal should stop using the English language, students are advised to.

Symptoms of an authoritarian syndrome, which showed students the answers, they are inherited from parents, researchers say.

Soviet cliches such as ...

come to the conclusion, researchers.

Russian student views differ depending on the quality of the university: students ... Students ' netopovyh ... The enemy of Russia, such students are referred to the U.S..

The military estimated the Russian reality even more critical, calling on Russia to ...

However, doubts about the country's defense is not the military, in their view, Russia is still ... The enemy of Russia, and this category of citizens believe the U.S. interest, according to the military, in the territory of Russia and minerals.

Nostalgia for the USSR, the military has a ... In the Army approves the Soviet ...

Working middle-aged Russians are nostalgic for the Soviet Union for many reasons, but especially - in an atmosphere of cohesion, the willingness of people to help each other. The main enemy - the U.S. - according to the respondents in this category, ...

... The atmosphere in the Soviet Union retirees referred to as ...

Like the students, a retired Soviet multinational state is associated with. However, many of them are intolerant of migrants from former Soviet republics, which ...

Homeless children, like adults, as well as representatives from other sectors, Russia is considered a ... The main enemy in this case, the U.S. and non-Russians, who are invited to settle in specific neighborhoods or even expel from the country. This is a compensatory response to the unfavorable conditions of life, researchers believe.

In adults, the homeless, showing similar views, nostalgia for the Soviet Union is associated with the need to shift responsibility for their lives in the state, scientists say.

The views of the State Duma deputies, including the selection of the chief enemy of Russia, are no different from those of ...

...

The mood of the Russians, they are compared with the mood of the Weimar Republic - Germany between the wars.

By themselves, these sentiments ... ... Ru ». In order to prevent terrible events, policies need to change the rhetoric, stop appealing to nationalist emotions awakened easily and talk about saving the country.

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suggested that the scientist.

Deputy Director of the Center for Political Technologies, Aleksei Makarkin in the terrible events in the future, Russia does not believe. ... - ... Ru ») was losing the war after the feeling of invincibility. It was a national catastrophe, the search for the perpetrators engaged in the entire population of the country ... We do not have such a factor. ...
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