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My main, though not sole, purpose in this chapter is to show how the concept of political culture has been embraced in writing on Soviet politics within the USSR itself and to discuss briefly the content of that body of work. Though some Soviet writers more than others emphasise the importance of the Soviet Union’s historical inheritance from Tsarist Russia, the main stress in their publications is on the newness of Soviet political culture and on the creation of Socialist Man.
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Sidney Verba, ‘Comparative Political Culture’, pp. 512–60 of Lucian W. Pye and Sidney Verba (eds) Political Culture and Political Development (Princeton, New Jersey, 1965) p. 555.
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See, for example, M. T. Iovchuk, ‘Nekotorye osobennosti politicheskoy kul’tury sotsializma’ in D. A. Kerimov (ed.) Problemy politicheskikh nauk (Moscow, 1980) pp. 164–72, at p. 169; similarly, lovchuk, ‘Osobennosti politicheskoy kul’tury sotsializma’ in V. E. Chirkin (ed.) Razvitie politicheskikh sistem v sovremennom mire (Moscow, 1981) pp. 86–94, at p. 88.
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Brown, A. (1984). Soviet Political Culture through Soviet Eyes. In: Brown, A. (eds) Political Culture and Communist Studies. St Antony’s/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17716-5_5
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