Social Self-Consciousness and Political Culture in Post-Soviet Russia

This study focuses on social self-consciousness in post-Soviet Russia with reference to the concepts of "Self", "Our" and "Other". Based on the theories of the "Self" and the "Other" from three different disciplines – psychology, sociology and democracy theory –, the author analyzes the characteristics of post-Soviet change and political culture in Russia. Focusing on qualitative interviews with young people of the first post-soviet generation, this dissertation project reveals patterns of interpretation of the present-day political culture in Russia.