Lev Gudkov, the head of the Levada Center polling agency, says that Russians have evolved from Homo Sovieticus to “Putin Men,” changing in certain fundamental ways as a result of Vladimir Putin’s rule, but retaining many of the features from the Soviet past. The longtime sociologist says that a Soviet man was archetypically “a person...
Russians have evolved from Homo Sovieticus to “Putin Men,” notes head of polling agency
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