Tag: peasant past

Putin Electorate Reflects Underlying Continuities in Russian Society, Sociologist Says

May 30, 2014

Staunton, May 30 – Despite the rise of a Russian middle class and the rapid turnover in that country’s leaders and regimes, Vladimir Putin draws his support from the fact that Russian society remains tied to its peasant past, with most people not more than a generation or so removed from the culture of the […]