Soviet Nostalgia: An impediment to Russian democratization

Washington Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 83-96

  Mendelson, Sarah E ^a   Gerber, Theodore P ^b  

^a CSIS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 28844505981     PISSN: 0163660X     EISSN: 15309177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/016366005774859661     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. "Putin Opposes Foreign Financing of Political Activities in Russia," Mosnews.com, July 20, 2005.
2. Sarah E. Mendelson and John K. Glenn, eds., The Power and Limits of NGOs: A Critical Look at Building Democracy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002).
3. On the "political consequences of absent memory," see Anne Applebaum, The Gulag: A History (New York: Doubleday, 2003), p. 572.
4. The 2005 survey was supported by grants from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and by the Glaser Progress Foundation and was written in collaboration with the Russian human rights organizations Memorial as part of an ongoing project.
5. We verified that these items could be combined into a scale using exploratory factor analysis. To create the scale, we assigned integer values to the responses and took the average across all six items. For more details on this and the other scales in this article, contact Theodore Gerber.
6. For a more detailed exploration of the Stalin questions on this survey by the authors, see Sarah E. Mendelson and Theodore P. Gerber, "Failing the Stalin Test," Foreign Affairs (forthcoming January/February 2006).
7. In April-May 2002, we conducted two sets of surveys supported by a grant from the Glaser Progress Foundation. In January-February 2003, we conducted surveys with support from the U.S. Department of State. In June 2004, USAID supported a survey conducted in six regions as part of our work with Memorial, and the Ford Foundation supported a survey in July 2004 that was nationally representative of the general population.
8. The focus groups were conducted by a native Russian speaker and observed by the authors behind a two-way mirror. They were also taped and transcribed.
9. For descriptions of the work with Russian activists, see http://www.csis.org/ruseura/humanrights/campaign.htm.
10. "Potemkin Democracy," Washington Post, May 30, 2003, p. A22 (editorial).
11. Igor Semenenko, "U.S. Rolling Back Funding for Muskie Programs," Moscow Times, August 26, 2003, p. 10.
12. Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution (New York: Scribner, 2005).
13. Also, see Nina Khruscheva, "'Rehabilitating' Stalin," World Policy Journal 22, no. 1 (Summer 2005): 67-73.
14. James L. Gibson, Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004).
15. Courtney Angela Brkic, "The Wages of Denial," New York Times, July 11, 2005, p. A17.