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Valeria Kasamara, Anna Sorokina. Post-Soviet collective memory: Russian youths about Soviet past. 2015. doi:10.1016/j.postcomstud.2015.06.003
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967067X15000197

Abstract:
The research [conducted in 2012] is focused on the image of the Soviet Union and that of its successor – the Russian Federation – in the minds of the Russian student youth.
The participants of the poll were 100 students from the leading Moscow universities. They had been born after the Soviet Union collapse, so, the majority of them have a very obscure idea of the Soviet reality, simultaneously feeling nostalgia for the Soviet political past.
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As evidenced by the included results of the study, students from the leading Moscow universities are indeed worried by the lack of a single unifying idea in contemporary Russia, which in the Soviet Union was communism. The students did not know what could unify modern society; they did not know what they could be proud of in contemporary Russia.
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The Soviet Union had power. Yes, we were feared, at least. Those Norwegians would not have dared to stop and fine our fishing boats, like they do it now. Now it's all done easily (male student, 24 years old).

The Soviet Union is a country of happy, smiling, working people. The policemen, too, are smiling. Personally to me, that is the image that immediately comes to my mind. And also there definitely needs to be some sort of holiday. All people are happily crowding around, singing some kind of soulful song. People are working hard, but at the same time none of them complain of their fate, nor talk about how difficult life is for them. Everyone is satisfied (male student, 24 years old).

They had the Young Octobrists, the Young Pioneers, and we have nothing. And that was very important – it could, in a psychological sense, stimulate people to actively participate in their society, not for monetary reasons or some personal benefit, but rather for moral values, such as prestige. It's not a desire to buy «Dolce and Gabbana» jeans; there they had a completely different motivating factor” (female student, 19 years old).

Contemporary Russia lacks a national idea that would unite us and move us forward. Psychologically, this very negatively affects people's activities, their hope in the future. And if there is no hope in the future then, naturally, there is no inclination to get anything done. People felt withdrawn. This leads to moral problems: the great, open Russian soul, about which much has been written by poets and writers, both domestic and foreign, is disappearing to somewhere. This part of our mentality gives way to people becoming evil and getting caught up in their minute problems, gives way to people needing to think about how to live, what to do, where to go (female student, 18 years).