Human Values Modernization in Post-Soviet Countries

This work analyzed the modernization process in Post-Soviet space. The purpose was to close the existing literature lack of the works on Post -Soviet society in terms of human value changes. The previous research demonstrated the ambiguous results of emancipative value changes in Post-Soviet society. The heterogeneity hypothesis is tested in this paper and compared with the existing literature. This work studies three major clusters, the Slavic cluster (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), the Caucasian cluster (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) and the Baltic cluster (Lithuania and Estonia). The choice of countries depended on the availability of the data in WVS and EVS. The countries chosen have at least three points of measurement during the period from 1990s to 2020. This paper uses age- period-cohort analysis to perform the linear regression with age, period and cohorts being explanatory variables in the model. The dependent variable was the emancipative values index reconstructed according to Welzel’s modernization theory.