Soviet Democracy and its Economic System after Stalin

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K03300
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: Kawamoto Kazuko 同志社大学, 研究開発推進機構, 嘱託研究員 (50376399)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ソ連政治史 / 労働紛争 / 民主主義論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I have collected necessary materials and works at the Russian State Library in Moscow and several university libraries in Japan. I analyzed especially decisions made by the Soviet Supreme Court on labour disputes and academic works on the same topic to speak about solving disputes in a society with limited plurality of interests at one research meeting. Now I revise my work, considering the comments I received at the meeting.
Other than this, I wrote an article on Soviet democracy to explore its characteristics for developing a base for my research. In the article published in 2017, ‘Discrepancies in a Society of Homogeneous Interests: Soviet Society after Stalin’, I show how Soviet scholars worked to enlarge the scope of interests in the Soviet society and thereby introduced a sort of liberalism as a result.

Free Research Field

政治学