The 1996 Russian Presidential Elections: Motivations of a New Russian Electorate and Two Competing Candidates
Abstract
The idea for this paper began while I was studying in St. Petersburg, Russia
during the last quarter of 1995. The Duma elections were held only a week before
my departure and on the same day as my final essay for civilization course was
due. Taking my first steps into the study of post-Soviet politics, I chose to write that
essay on the youth vote in Russia and how young people were reacting to the
politicians and politics of the day. The numerous political advertisements on
television and billboards around the city had generated in me a new interest in
Russian politics. Previously, I focused much of my academic study on Soviet and
Russian politics in relation to the rest of the world and the international system.
However, the "new Russia" that I experienced during that four month stay was quite
different from the Soviet Union I had visited only five years earlier. The changes
impressed upon me the amazing transition that the Russian pepple had and were
still experiencing. Additionally, campaign advertisements plastered across the city
represented a dramatic divergence from the socialist scenery of 1990. They inspired
my new curiosity about the internal workings of Russian society and state -- about
not only the structure o.e. elections and politics) but also the effects on and
reactions of the Russian people to the many changes that had taken place in such
a short period of time.
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