Emancipation from Doublethink? Post-Soviet Political Parties and Leadership

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dc.contributor.advisorTismaneanu, Vladimiren_US
dc.contributor.authorVoitsekhovsky, Peteren_US
dc.contributor.departmentGovernment and Politicsen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-03T05:30:59Z
dc.date.available2013-10-03T05:30:59Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study examines the phenomenon of doublethink as a core feature of the "mental software" that continues to define the character of post-Soviet societies. It is revealed in patterns of prevarication and equivocation that characterize the thinking and behavior of both the elites and the masses. Doublethink is also manifested in incongruous values and duplicitous rules that prevail in society. It accounts for the perpetuation of simulative and fake institutions of "façade democracy." Political parties in post-Soviet Ukraine are analyzed as a major example of simulative and imitative institutions. Here, traditional ideology-based party taxonomies prove misleading. Political parties are quasi-virtual entities with the character of "post-Orwellian political machines": they operate in a topsy-turvy world of imitated supply and deluded demand. The study employs three levels of analysis: macro (surveys data and "Tocquevillean" observations); meso (biographical data and political discourse analysis); and micro (in-depth interviews).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/14482
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPolitical Scienceen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEast European studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSocial psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddoublethinken_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmodernityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpolitical cultureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpolitical partiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpost-communismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUkraineen_US
dc.titleEmancipation from Doublethink? Post-Soviet Political Parties and Leadershipen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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