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Communism's shadow : historical legacies and contemporary political attitudes

Pop-Eleches, Grigore, author, Tucker, Joshua A. (Joshua Aaron), 1971- author

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It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states. However, prior research has focused primarily on the institutional legacy of communism. \"Communism's Shadow\" instead turns the focus to the individuals who inhabit post-communist countries, presenting a rigorous assessment of the legacy of communism on political attitudes. Post-communist citizens hold political, economic, and social opinions that consistently differ from individuals in other countries. Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua Tucker introduce two distinct frameworks to explain these differences, the first of which focuses on the effects of living in a post-communist country, and the second on living through communism. Drawing on large-scale research encompassing post-communist states and other countries around the globe, the authors demonstrate that living through communism has a clear, consistent influence on why citizens in post-communist countries are, on average, less supportive of democracy and markets and more supportive of state-provided social welfare. The longer citizens have lived through communism, especially as adults, the greater their support for beliefs associated with communist ideology--the one exception being opinions regarding gender equality.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Post-communism Europe, Eastern.
• ISBN: 9780691175584, 0691175586, 9780691175591, 0691175594

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
JN96.A58 P66 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE