Vladimir Magun, Maksim Rudnev. Beyond the Soviet Man: Russians in the European Value Typology. In: Dismantling communism. Thirty years later ...

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Abstract

At the dawn of post-Soviet sociology, Yu.A. Levada and his team of authors formulated a request for a typological approach to describing and analyzing the consciousness and behavior of Russians. This article describes an attempt to implement this request in a broad cross-country context and to present the distribution of Russians between common European value types. Changes in the representation of various value classes, like our previous studies concerning changes in individual value variables, do not confirm the idea of ​​the phenomena of Russian culture as unchanging entities (archetypes, cultural codes, institutional matrices) that severely limit the nature and content of social processes. The results obtained also indicate that the distribution of the values ​​of the Russian population is in line with general European patterns (Shleifer, Treisman, 2004; Treisman, Shleifer, 2014). The least represented in Russia, as in most other post-socialist countries, is still the class of values ​​of Growth, which harmoniously combines adherence to the values ​​of Care (altruism, tolerance, equality and justice) and the individualistic values ​​of Openness (independence, courage and the desire for novelty). Thus, this class does not fit into the framework of the customary opposition between the individual and the collective, but it is this class that distinguishes the population of more prosperous European countries.