RWA Scale reliability replicated on Russian students under Soviet rule

Evidence

In the spring of 1989, Andre Kamenshikov administered his own translation of the RWA Scale for me to 226 students attending Moscow State University (the one in Russia, not Idaho). The alpha was . (Altemeyer and Kamenshikov, 1991). — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 243

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates cross-cultural universality claims being built in the vault: authoritarian submission/aggression/conventionalism covarying even in Soviet Russia suggests a cross-regime, cultural-general structure.
• CANDY: A Soviet translation of the scale holding together is an oddly delightful detail.