Changing Values and Identities in the Post-Communist World

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Nadezhda Lebedeva, Radosveta Dimitrova, John W. Berry, Klaus Boehnke

   Pages 1-24

3. Value Changes Across Countries and Generations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Democratic Values in the Post-Communist Region: The Incidence of Traditionalists, Skeptics, Democrats, and Radicals

      • Martina Klicperova-Baker, Jaroslav Kostal

      Pages 27-51

   3. Emancipative Values in a Post-Communist Society: The Case of Serbia

      • Zoran Pavlović

      Pages 53-66

   4. Changes in Value Structure Among Estonian Majority and Russian-Speaking Minority in Post-Socialist Estonia

      • Laur Lilleoja, Maaris Raudsepp

      Pages 67-83

   5. Intergenerational Value Differences in Latvia and Azerbaijan

      • Ekaterina Bushina, Tatiana Ryabichenko

      Pages 85-98

   6. The Values and Social Identity of Russian Muslims

      • Olga Pavlova

      Pages 99-115

   7. Intergenerational Transmission of Values in Urban and Rural Areas of Russia: The Role of Perceived Psychological Closeness

      • Dmitrii Dubrov, Alexander Tatarko

      Pages 117-130

   8. Parenting Values and Practices Across Post-Communist Societies in Youth Identity Formation: A Literature Review

      • Oriola Hamzallari

      Pages 131-155

   9. Values of Ethnic Russian Minority Members in North Caucasus Republics of the Russian Federation: An Inter- and Intragenerational Comparison

      • Victoria Galyapina, Nadezhda Lebedeva, Zarina Lepshokova, Klaus Boehnke

      Pages 157-173

   10. Values and Religious Identity of Russian Students from Different Religions

       • Oleg Y. Khukhlaev, Valeria A. Shorokhova, Elena A. Grishina, Olga S. Pavlova

       Pages 175-189

   11. Value Similarity with Mothers and Peers and Family Climate as Predictors of Well-Being of Russian Youth in Latvia

       • Tatiana Ryabichenko, Nadezhda Lebedeva, Irina Plotka

       Pages 191-205

   12. Generational Belonging and Historical Ruptures: Continuity or Discontinuity of Values and Attitudes in Post-Communist Romania

       • Dana Gavreliuc, Alin Gavreliuc

       Pages 207-222

4. Social Identities Changes in Comparative Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223

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   2. Multiple Social Identities in Relation to Self-Esteem of Adolescents in Post-communist Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Kosovo, and Romania

      • Radosveta Dimitrova, Pasquale Musso, Iva Polackova Solcova, Delia Stefenel, Fitim Uka, Skerdi Zahaj et al.

      Pages 225-241

   3. Probing the Relationship Between Group Identities of Russians and Ossetians in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania: Intergenerational Analysis

      • Victoria Galyapina, Nadezhda Lebedeva

      Pages 243-258

   4. Ethnic Identity and Cultural Value Orientations of Moldavian Youth in Transitional Society

      • Irina Caunenco

      Pages 259-279

   5. The Influence of Identity Styles on Adolescents’ Psychological Problems in Postcommunist Albania

      • Skerdi Zahaj, Radosveta Dimitrova

      Pages 281-294

   6. The Kaleidoscope of Language, Ethnicity, and Identity in Uzbekistan

      • Kamila Isaeva, Byron G. Adams, Fons J. R. van de Vijver

      Pages 295-311

This book offers a comparative analysis of value and identity changes in several post-Soviet countries. In light of the tremendous economic, social and political changes in former communist states, the authors compare the values, attitudes and identities of different generations and cultural groups. Based on extensive empirical data, using quantitative and qualitative methods to study complex social identities, this book examines how intergenerational value and identity changes are linked to socio-economic and political development. Topics include the rise of nationalist sentiments, identity formation of ethnic and religious groups and minorities, youth identity formation and intergenerational value conflicts. 

• Intergenerational value differences
• Post-communist countries
• Post-soviet countries
• Rise of nationalist sentiments
• Socio-psychological changes
• Value and identity changes

• Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow, Russia

  Nadezhda Lebedeva

• Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

  Radosveta Dimitrova

• Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

  John Berry

Nadezhda Lebedeva is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Head of the International Laboratory for Socio-cultural Research at The National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. She is Academic Director of double degree Master Program on Applied Social Psychology of HSE, Russia and Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Her research interests are values, identity, intercultural relations, acculturation, creativity and innovations, social and cultural change. She is the author of more than 200 articles and books in social and cross-cultural psychology.
 
Radosveta Dimitrova is Docent of Psychology at Stockholm University, Sweden. She holds PhD in Developmental Psychology (University of Trieste, Italy awarded the 2009 Best Doctoral Thesis by the Italian Association of Psychologists), and a PhD in Cross-Cultural Psychology (Tilburg University, the Netherlands, awarded the 2012 Student and Early Career Council Dissertation Award of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). She is the winner of the 2016 Young Scientist Award of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, ISSBD for distinguished theoretical contribution and programmatic research to the study of Behavioral Development and dissemination of developmental science. Her research interests regard migration, positive youth development, identity, intergroup relations, indigenous ethnic minority communities (Roma).
 
John Berry is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Queen's University, Canada, and Research Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. He received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Athens, and Université de Geneve (in 2001).His interests are in cross-cultural and intercultural psychology, with an emphasis on applications to immigration, acculturation and multiculturalism. He has published over 30 books in the areas of cross-cultural, intercultural, social and cognitive psychology with various colleagues.

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