Social class factor of Russians' political behavior

"Social and class factor of political behavior in Russia" deals with the de grees of influcence by Russian electorate and changes in mass political pre ferences. Three field surveys (1993, 1995 and 1996) serve as empirical data bank for this purpose. It is argued that growing significance of class fac tor in political behavior is caused by class grounded support or rejection of market idea as well as by differing political education. Electorate is g etting more and more politically aware and economically differentiated. In sum, these factors explain much of the growth in class motivated voting. Pr actical and theoretical aspects of the above findings are discussed in conc lusion.