High authoritarians supported both Pamyat nationalists and the Communist Party

Evidence

The most interesting studies of right-wing authoritarianism and political affiliation, for my money, have been carried out by McFarland and his associates in the former USSR and Russia. McFarland, Ageyev, and Abalakina (1990) found that High RWAs in their samples tended to support the “distinctly conservative” Pamyat group and the Communist Party in 1989. The same authors in 1992 reported that RWA scores still predicted support for hard-line Communists (including a leader of the failed August 1991 coup). Boris Yeltsin was favored by Lows. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 503

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the finding that RWA correlates with conservatism across systems - but here shows authoritarians backing Communists, complicating the simple left-right mapping.