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The essential purpose of this book has been to ventilate argument concerning the scope of the concept of political culture, to question whether the notion should be applied in the study of Communist systems, to ask what (if anything) it has to offer by way of explanation or interpretation of political life in such systems, and to attempt to show how it or its component parts can be elucidated or refined in such a way as to provide greater insight into Communist politics. Some formidably large questions have been raised — among them, the nature of the relationship between a people and their history; the ways in which political beliefs are acquired, maintained, changed and transmitted; and the relationship between values and attitudes, on the one hand, and political behaviour, on the other.
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Brown, A. (1984). Conclusions. 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_8
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