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Russian and Soviet Psychology in the Changing Political Environments

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

9-14-2023

Abstract

Psychology in Russia and the Soviet Union has a long history influenced by several changes in the political environment. From Tsarist times to the death of the communist dictator Stalin in 1953, it was relatively easy to see the impact of the ruler on publications in Russian Psychology. This changed after Stalin’s death in 1953. In a bibliometric research, we investigated the change of psychological research subjects since the publishing of the first post-Stalin psychological journal “Voprosy Psichologii” in 1955 until 2000, when Putin became president of the Russian federation. In total, we obtained 7,049 entries of contributions in this journal, which we analyzed with an R-script using a qualitative time series analysis approach. The changes of the research subjects in psychology are then correlated with the policies of Secretary General of the communist party and the political decisions of the so-called central committee of the KPSU.

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Publication Title

Ideological and Political Bias in Psychology

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29148-7_31

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