REGIONAL PREFERENCES AND CONCEPTS OF SOVIET YOUTH

Data obtained from a questionnaire is used to analyze the regional preferences and views of graduating secondary] school students from several Soviet cities and of several groups of Muscovites (including also university students, geographers, and the intelligentsia) about a set of 20 regions of the USSR. A basic similarity of the preferences of young Muscovites with the preferences of their contemporaries from other cities is revealed. The differences in regional preferences of students from various portions of the country were found to be stronger than the differences in regional preferences among various groups of the population within a single city (Translated by Jay K. Mitchell, PlanEcon, Inc., Washington, DC 20005).