Objective This research aims to produce and to gather precise information, using an historical approach, about changes in minds in the NIS which has happened very quickly and should be seized before it disappears; to analyse the logic and the coherence of the behaviours, by discovering classical and new patterns of attitudes or behaviours and by creating relevant theoretical tools to interpret these facts; and to elucidate and explain the processes of transition in order to make understandable and visible the evolution of NIS post-socialist societies and to provide public and private managers with help in decision-making.The transition to democracy and market economy requires specific means in order to seize and to elucidate the processes of deconstruction in political life or its reconstruction, the adaptation to new socio-economical rules and the reshaping of frameworks of collective identification.The methodology will make use of surveys derived from questionnaires. Three samples of 1200 individuals each will be randomly selected. The main items of the questionnaire will be related to the attitudes towards economic, social and political change. The long term objective will be to measure the evolution of attitudes across time by doing panel surveys. Programme(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Topic(s) 72 - Social Sciences Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Institut d'Etudes Politiques EU contribution No data Address Domaine Universitaire 38402 St. Martin d'Hères France See on map Total cost No data Participants (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Institute for the Economy in Transition Russia EU contribution No data Address Moscow See on map Total cost No data Roses France EU contribution No data Address 38040 Grenoble See on map Total cost No data