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Zusatztext 'Libman and Obydenkova's study of Communist Party legacies in Russia takes the discussion of this phenomenon to a new level. An impressive combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis, brimming with thickly descriptive asides about Soviet and post-Soviet life.' Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University Informationen zum Autor Alexander Libman is Professor of Social Sciences and Eastern European Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and a research affiliate at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. He is the author, co-author or co-editor of ten books. Anastassia V. Obydenkova is a visiting Professor at Barcelona Institute of International Studies, leading research fellow at National Research University Higher School of Economics, research affiliate at Institute for Economic Analysis of Spanish Council for Scientific Research. She was a Fox Fellow at Yale University, Fung Fellow at Princeton University, and Davis Senior Research Scholar at Harvard University. She is the author of multiple articles and books. Klappentext Reveals how the legacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union affects modern politics, society and economic development in post-Communist Russia. Zusammenfassung Libman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of Communism have survived in politics, economic development, culture, and society, thirty years after the disintegration of the USSR. This study is built on case studies, interviews and an analysis of mass media previously only available in Russian and discussed here in English for the first time. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The CPSU legacy: Leninism or clientelism? 3. Cultural environment and Soviet cinematography as a legacy of the CPSU; 4. Measuring CPSU legacies; 5. Democracy; 6. Corruption; 7. Inequality; 8. Mortality; 9. Attitudes towards migrants; 10. Economic development and innovations; 11. The origin and persistence of legacies; 12. Conclusion....
