Party System and Leadership: Role of Ideologies and Rational Choice. Part I

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Political Governance and Public Policy in Russia

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Political Governance and Public Policy in Russia

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The course is designed to study the features of the political structure of modern Russia. It contains both general information on the institutional, procedural and value components of the political system and public policy in Russia, as well as a description of the problems, contradictions and prospects for the political development of the country. The course contains three main modules: (1) the political system and regime in Russia: state institutions, political parties, civil society; (2) the public policy process in Russia: the mechanisms for elaborating, adopting and implementing policies and decisions; (3) directions and problems of economic and social policy in Russia: development based on stabilization. The course is aimed at those listeners who want to gain systematic knowledge of politics in Russia, as well as those who are focused on studying Russia's political development in complex and uncertain contexts. Studying the course students can choose the level of the course (general or in-depth), focusing on video material, information, discussions, forums, evaluations and interactive communication with teachers. The advanced level of the course development assumes the active participation of students in discussions, forums and project assignments. The overall mission of the course is to develop students' objective political knowledge about Russia and their ability to make critical scientific analysis and assessment.

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Russian party system and civic society

Social Stratification in Russian Federation and Different Social groups’ Values10:26

Party System and Leadership: Role of Ideologies and Rational Choice. Part I4:50

Party System and Leadership: Role of Ideologies and Rational Choice. Part II8:52

Rencontrer les enseignants

Kirill A. Neverov
Candidate of Political Sciences
Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Governance
Leonid V. Smorgunov
Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Political Governance
Anna V. Volkova
Doctor of Political Science
Department of Political Governance
Aleksandr S. Sherstobitov
Candidate of Political Science
Department of Political Governance

Welcome to a new topic which is about Russian party system.

To understand the Political Party System in contemporary Russia is better,

and we must remember the historical way

of institutionalization of citizen participation in Russia.

At the slide, you can see the party system at the beginning of 20th century.

The party is like Mensheviks and

Esera were are indebted to workers and peasants or lower class.

And there goes the revolution.

Overthrow of autocracy and dictatorship of the proletariat.

Constitution Democrates and October's are dated on bourgeois on middle class.

They tried to vote for new reforms in Russian empire.

Nicole the second wasn't a party member officially,

but he supported the monarchical party union of the Russian nation.

By the way our first parliament State Duma walked in 1906 only seventy two days.

It was dissolved by sorry because it was rather danger for political regime.

One party system was more understandable for

Russian society based on traditional vendors.

Communist ideology in fact most not absolutely new.

The communist leaders used many traditional principle and some decorative elements.

Soviet's campaign poster are the perfect example to illustrate this phenomenon.

At first, you can see a strong man vote for his Motherland.

Who is he? Probably he's a broker.

Absolutely sure that he is in a Communist Party member and he vote for his Motherland.

It's very much important symbol for official Soviet propaganda.

Election day looked like a national holidays and three years earlier it was so.

I look at this poster,

an old man old father,

voted for best deputies.

He asked you to vote as well as for your own family.

It is not a rational choice, it's emotional choice.

It's very emotional symbol,

but very often used in Russian official propaganda.

You can see a beautiful Soviet woman elected deputies.

It also was a very important symbol and elements of Soviet propaganda.

And the Stalin's constitution of 1936,

and the Soviet electoral law had no discrimination on gender or national principles.

It was rousing you even for European countries.

Not only for modern Soviet state,

but it is very much important that there was

no political competition and fighting during the electoral process.

Here is a typical ballot paper.

The Soviet people voted for united block of communist members and non-party members.

You can see only one candidate in the ballot paper.

In the end of Soviet time,

the election result choice were normal practice.

There were not alternative any ballot papers.

For years, this practice formed in most opinion

a negative and satirical relation to the electoral process.

The first real alternative election took place in contemporary Russia in 1989.

It was the election of their supreme Council.

In my opinion, it was the great result of perestroika.

As a matter of step though their creating of multi-party system was done.

It's very interesting, and the past experience of

political party building were not used by Russian citizens.

The previous party system hasn't been restored.

The only party had to remain the Communist Party.

How such things be explained?

The Russian people supported the perestroika,

but they were disappointed and franked them by result of

market reforms development and social economic crisis later.

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