In this article the features of social-relationship systems are analyzed based on the data from a sociopsychological empirical study conducted in two stages (2002 and 2014) on a large sample with the help of g. Kelly's Repertory grid Technique. A. V. Petrovsky's three-factor interpersonal-relationships model as interpreted for closed groups by M. Yu. Kondratev and the concept of the closed society as described by Karl Popper provide the foundation for the theoretical hypothesis we tested. The empirical data obtained in 2002 came from 391 participants of different ages who were living in provincial towns in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The elderly respondents (232 people) had lived almost all their lives under the Soviet regime; the middle-aged respondents (159 people) got their education and started their careers in the USSR. Soviet society is considered to be closed because of its authoritarian and collectivist nature, static social structure, and dogmatic ideology. It is argued that both closed societies and closed groups are characterized by a rigid hierarchical social structure, isolation from other systems, and depersonalization of social relations. We have proved that members of a closed group and citizens of a closed society have similar social-relationship matrices.
The article presents the results of investigation of the social phenomenon of Moscow-phobia based on empirical data that include 881 interviews taken in the Nizhny Novgorod region in 2002 and 2014. The analysis of Moscow-phobia builds on Alexander Etkind's thesis that internal colonization reproduces cultural distance.The findings are explained in the context of two theories of internal colonization, Marxist and post-colonial. Earlier, Rossman described five concepts of Moscow-phobia based on territorial economic inequalities and the political hegemony of the center.This study complements the list with the new forms, as the participants express their anxiety centered on the cultural distance and the domination of province.Thus, the central argument of this article is that contemporary Russia incorporates both trends (decolonization and reproduction of internal colonialism) in the relationship between the "center" (the capital) and the "periphery" (the regions).
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