Historical and Cultural Tradition of Organizing Labour Activity in Russia and Its Impact on Today’s Economic Mentality of Russian Citizens

The article deals with issues concerning the condition and development of national economic mentality of Russian citizens in view of historical and cultural, as well as historical and economic heritage of the country, historical specific features of shaping economic and managerial culture. According to the author, humanization, democratization and optimization of managerial culture with due regard to specificity of national economic culture are essential pre-conditions for the process. Issues of today’s labour and management culture in Russia are investigated in close relation with the Russian cultural model, economic mentality of Russian citizens formed during previous centuries and historic experience of organizing production processes in the Russian empire and the USSR. For this research the author used a combination of historical and logical methods in line with the statistical method, analysis of historic sources, as well as the method of comparative analysis.

managing production processes in Russia, managing labour processes, Russian economic cultural model, Russian mentality, economy, economic cultural model in the USSR, economic mentality, collectivism, justice, paternalism, high-contextuality

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