ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we compare citizenship activity between former USSR satellites countries – Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Czech. Students from former USSR satellite countries differed in all citizenship behaviour dimensions except for political activity. Students from Poland declared the highest engagement in general citizenship activity, passive citizenship and active citizenship in comparison to the other three satellite countries. Together with students from Slovakia, they scored higher in semi-active citizenship, compared to students from Czech Republic and Hungary. From among the four former USSR satellites in Hungary, there were more alienated individualists (with average scores in personal activity and lowest scores in all other dimensions of citizenship), and in Slovakia, there were more apolitical activists (with low scores in political activity and a relatively high scores on the other dimensions). Poland had a significant over-representation of activists: political activists (with the highest scores on all dimensions of citizenship behaviour) and especially apolitical activists (with low scores in political activity and relatively high scores on the other dimensions). The research results will be discussed from citizenship education perspective.
