SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ATTITUDES AND ELECTORAL PREFERENCES                                                 OF THE RUSSIAN PROVINCIAL YOUTH              

Bukin Vasily Petrovich, Candidate of sociology, professor, sub-department of public administration and regional sociology, the dean of the faculty of innovative technologies in education, Penza State University, fito@pnzgu.ru 

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The article analyses socio-political state and young people of the Russian province attitude to the authority. The author also considers electoral preferences of young people during the period of election to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Legislative Assembly of Penza Region, and presidential election of the Russian Federation. 

youth, politics, authority, electorate, self-identification, social initiative, social status, socialization.