Unbroken Links? From Imperial Human Capital to Post-Communist Modernisation

Tomila Lankina

Europe-Asia Studies, 2012, vol. 64, issue 4, 623-643

Abstract: The article explores imperial human capital affects on current human capital and democracy variations in Russia's regions based on author-constructed datasets with imperial and post-communist statistics. Pre-communist education is a significant predictor of modernisation, which in studies of Russian regions explains a large share of regional democratic variation. Pre-communist education also apparently positively affects post-communist democracy. The communists did not build on a clean slate; nor did they overwrite pre-communist human capital stocks in the regions. The spatially uneven structural conditions related to frontier settlement and population movements after the emancipation of the serfs may also have a bearing on human capital variations.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2012.675666

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