THE DEGREE OF THE SOVIET POLITICAL CULTURE'S AFFECT ON THE POST-SOVIET RUSSIAN POLITICS

Abstract

The major aim of the work is to define the core aspects of political culture, methods of governmental management which have been taken by the current Russian political elite from the Soviet political cultural tradition. The text presents the author's insight on the politicalpsychological characteristics of inter-generational changes and succession in the Soviet and current Russian types of governance. The main inference of the works states partial succession and argues against the idea of full transmission of the Soviet political culture into the current one. However, the modern Russian political culture is also to be distinguished within: there is a great divergence between Yeltsin’s times and modern Putin’s epoch.