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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.
Recommended Citation
Knoell, H.D., Jou, J. (2023). Russian and Soviet Psychology in the Changing Political Environments. In: Frisby, C.L., Redding, R.E., O'Donohue, W.T., Lilienfeld, S.O. (eds) Ideological and Political Bias in Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29148-7_31
Publication Title
Ideological and Political Bias in Psychology
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29148-7_31
Comments
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