Political Culture and Post-Communism

Our understanding of the dynamics of Communist systems was substantially improved by taking political culture into account. But how much does the concept of political culture add to our empirical understanding of post-Communist Russia? The book's contributors engage with theoretical debates between political culture and competing 'rational choice' and institutionalist approaches to post-Soviet politics, and provide illustrative empirical studies of civic participation, views of national identity, the Russian criminal justice system and political violence.

ARCHIE BROWN Oxford University, UK JEFFREY HAHN Villanova University, USA CHARLES KING Georgetown University, USA ALEXANDER LUKIN Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Russia PAVEL LUKIN Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia MARY MCAULEY Supernumerary Fellow, St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK RICHARD SAKWA University of Kent at Canterbury, UK STEPHEN WELCH Durham University, UK