Youth and the emergence of the New Russia

Russian Education and Society

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 23-40

  Ruchkin, B A ^a  

^a The Scientific Research Center of the Institute of Youth   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0033244837     PISSN: 10609393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/RES1060-9393410823     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. The article is based on materials of sociological surveys that were carried out by the Scientific Research Center of the Institute of Youth in 1995-97.
2. "Youth Under Conditions of socioeconomic Reforms. Materials of an International Scientific-Practical Conference, 26-28 September 1995" [Molodezh' v usloviiakh sotsial'no-ekonomicheskikh reform. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii 26-28.09 1995 g.]. Issue 1, 1995, p. 75.
3. Statisticheskoe obozrenie. Ezhekvartal'nyi zhurnal Goskomstata Rossii, 1997, no. 1, pp. 68, 72.
4. See V. A. Kutsenko, The Younger Generation. Education, Choice of Profession, Career [Molodoe pokolenie Obrazovanie. Vybor professii, kar'era] (Moscow, 1993) pp. 14-15.
5. See V. T. Lisovskii, ed., The Sociology of Youth. A Textbook [Sotsiologiia molodezhi. Uchebnik], (Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Sanktpeterburgskogo universiteta, 1996) p. 33; V. I. Chuprov et al., eds., The Youth of Russia: Social Development [Molodezh' Rossii: sotsial'noe razvitie] (Moscow, 1992); I. M. Il'inskii and A. V. Sharonov, eds., The Youth of Russia: Tendencies and Prospects [Molodezh' Rossii: tendentsii, perspektivy] (Moscow, 1993); I. M. Il'inskii (editor in chief), B. A. Ruchkin, and P. I. Babochkin, eds., Youth - the Future of Russia [Molodezh': budushchee Rossii] (Moscow, 1995).
6. See V. T. Lisovskii, ed., The Sociology of Youth. A Textbook [Sotsiologiia molodezhi. Uchebnik], (Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Sanktpeterburgskogo universiteta, 1996) p. 33; V. I. Chuprov et al., eds., The Youth of Russia: Social Development [Molodezh' Rossii: sotsial'noe razvitie] (Moscow, 1992); I. M. Il'inskii and A. V. Sharonov, eds., The Youth of Russia: Tendencies and Prospects [Molodezh' Rossii: tendentsii, perspektivy] (Moscow, 1993); I. M. Il'inskii (editor in chief), B. A. Ruchkin, and P. I. Babochkin, eds., Youth - the Future of Russia [Molodezh': budushchee Rossii] (Moscow, 1995).
7. See V. T. Lisovskii, ed., The Sociology of Youth. A Textbook [Sotsiologiia molodezhi. Uchebnik], (Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Sanktpeterburgskogo universiteta, 1996) p. 33; V. I. Chuprov et al., eds., The Youth of Russia: Social Development [Molodezh' Rossii: sotsial'noe razvitie] (Moscow, 1992); I. M. Il'inskii and A. V. Sharonov, eds., The Youth of Russia: Tendencies and Prospects [Molodezh' Rossii: tendentsii, perspektivy] (Moscow, 1993); I. M. Il'inskii (editor in chief), B. A. Ruchkin, and P. I. Babochkin, eds., Youth - the Future of Russia [Molodezh': budushchee Rossii] (Moscow, 1995).
8. See V. T. Lisovskii, ed., The Sociology of Youth. A Textbook [Sotsiologiia molodezhi. Uchebnik], (Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Sanktpeterburgskogo universiteta, 1996) p. 33; V. I. Chuprov et al., eds., The Youth of Russia: Social Development [Molodezh' Rossii: sotsial'noe razvitie] (Moscow, 1992); I. M. Il'inskii and A. V. Sharonov, eds., The Youth of Russia: Tendencies and Prospects [Molodezh' Rossii: tendentsii, perspektivy] (Moscow, 1993); I. M. Il'inskii (editor in chief), B. A. Ruchkin, and P. I. Babochkin, eds., Youth - the Future of Russia [Molodezh': budushchee Rossii] (Moscow, 1995).
9. See V. T. Shapko, The Current Culture of Russia's Young People: Abstract of Dissertation for Doctor of Sociological Sciences [Aktual'naia kul'tura rossiiskoi molodezhi: Avtoreferat dis. d. s. n. (Ekaterinburg, 1997).
10. See I. Il'inskii, Where Should Russia Be Going? [Kuda idti Rossii] (Moscow, 1995) pp. 102-5.
11. The Youth of Russia: Tendencies and Prospects, p. 206.
12. Nezavisimaia gazeta, 15 June 1997.
13. Statisticheskoe obozrenie, 1997, p. 7.
14. Nezavisimaia gazeta, 11 June 1997. The casualty figures do not count Chechnya and Tajikistan. As of 30 June 1996, 2,837 soldiers had died in Chechnya, including 459 officers.
15. The Situation of Young People in the Russian Federation: 1995 [Polozhenie molodezhi v RF: 1995 god], p. 101.
16. Ibid., pp. 15-21.
17. Nezavisimaia gazeta, 12 August 1997.
18. Out of 10 million people employed in the unofficial economy, 80 percent consist of people under 30. In 1996, 40 percent of entrepreneurs and around 70 percent of commercial outfits were involved in criminal activities. See Pravda, no. 9, 1-8 March 1996.
19. Novaia gazeta, 10 June 1996, p. 5.
20. Findings of the survey by the Scientific Research Center of the Institute of Youth (August of 1997). A total of 5,028 young people in various regions of the Russian Federation were surveyed.
21. According to the findings of the Scientific Research Center on 25-26 July 1996 concerning young people's preferences in the second round of the elections: under the age of 21, 70 percent were in favor of B. Yeltsin and 16.6 percent were in favor of G. Ziuganov; for 21-through 25-year-olds the respective figures were 81.0 and 8.9 percent; 26 through 30, 67.5 and 15.0 percent; in the case of young entrepreneurs, 95.7 and 4.3 percent; college students, 83.7 and 7.0 percent; according to the findings of the Center for Sociological Research at Moscow State University, 55.1 percent of 24-year-olds and 58.9 percent of 30-year-olds voted for the president.
22. I. B. Chubais, From the Russian Idea to the Idea of the New Russia. How We Should Overcome the Ideological Crisis [Ot russkoi idei - k idee Novoi Rossii. Kak nam preodolet' ideinyi krizis] (Moscow, 1997), p. 7.
23. In response to the question, "If a situation like that of the GKChP [the "Emergency Committee" during the abortive August coup in 1991] were to take place today, whose side would you be on?" (6,000 respondents were surveyed in sixty-two entities of the Russian Federation), 16 percent would have sided with Yeltsin, 21 percent would have sided with the GKChP, 35 percent would not have sided with either one, and 28 percent found it difficult to answer (see Argumenty i Fakty, 1997, no. 34).