Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR: A Survey of Former Soviet CitizensJames R. Millar Based on the first comprehensive study of life in the USSR since the Harvard Project some 33 years ago, Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR is designed to illustrate how the Soviet social system really works and how the Soviet people cope with it. Taken as a whole, the book describes the sources of support and alienation in the Soviet urban population during the late 1970s, discussing such issues as Soviet political beliefs, ethnic relations, economic inequality, quality of life, and perceptions of social status. The essays contained analyze the variations in attitudes and behavior reflected in the findings of the Soviet Interview Project, a 5-year, 7.5 million investigation of contemporary daily life in the USSR. Among these findings, generational differences and differential education attainment are found to be the most significant underlying determinants of the opinions on, and approaches to, the different issues; the young, the educated and the well-paid, that is, the "best and the brightest" of Soviet society, prove to be the most critical and least satisfied with life in the Soviet Union. This comprehensive investigation involved interviewing thousands of recent emigrants from the USSR to the United States as a means of learning about their former day-to-day living. These individuals provided for a large volume of first-hand reports. Some aspects of this survey dealt with areas the Soviets themselves had never investigated, so the data were not, and still are not, available even in unpublished Soviet sources. |
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Contents
History method and the problem of bias | 3 |
Quality of life subjective measures of relative satisfaction | 31 |
POLITICS SOURCES OF REGIME SUPPORT | 59 |
Politics generations and change in the USSR | 61 |
Political beliefs of the Soviet citizen sources of support for regime norms | 100 |
The attentive public for Soviet science and technology | 142 |
WORK ECONOMICDEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS | 169 |
Inequality of earnings household income and wealth in the Soviet Union in the 1970s | 171 |
LIFE SOCIAL STATUS ETHNIC RELATIONS AND MOBILIZED PARTICIPATION | 277 |
Perceptions of social status in the USSR | 279 |
Nationality policy and ethnic relations in the USSR | 301 |
Mobilized participation and the nature of the Soviet dictatorship | 332 |
The SIP General Survey sample | 354 |
Response effects in SIPs General Survey of Soviet emigrants | 372 |
Glossary | 406 |
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Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR: A Survey of Former Soviet Citizens James R. Millar No preview available - 1987 |
Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR: A Survey of Former Soviet Citizens James R. Millar No preview available - 1987 |
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Abram Bergson activity analysis answers average behavior birth blue-collar workers Brezhnev characteristics coefficient cohort column completed higher completed secondary education compliant CPSU dependent variable distribution DKCOL dummy variables earnings economic educational attainment end of LNP enterprise ethnic relations evaluations factors followed scientific achievements Gini coefficient groups Harvard Project higher education household income individual ISIP Jewish Jews Komsomol labor last normal period less logit material satisfaction measures mobilization Moldavia Moscow nationality nonconformity number of children number of respondents occupations percent percentage persons political problems productivity public sector job questionnaire questions regime norms regime support regression relatively reported republic respondent's response disparities retirement age RSFSR rubles Russian samizdat sampling frame satisfied science and technology score significant SIP General Survey SIP respondents Soviet citizens Soviet emigrants Soviet Interview Project Soviet society Soviet studies Soviet Union Stalin Table total number USSR variables wages women workers