№ 6 - 2013
Zverev A.L.
On Psychological Sources of Young Russian Politicians’ Political Behavior

The article tackles the problem of psychological sources of the activist type of modern Russian youth’s political behavior. Psychological reasons of young people’s coming to politics are analyzed, and principal trends are revealed, of social mobility in the frameworks of youth socio-political organizations of different political orientations. Considered is the influence of young politicians’ political socialization, of their motivation moulds, of their personality features on their choice of their own models of political behavior in modern Russian politics.