What do Russian citizens think about a special military operation Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" The experiment of the “new”: we compared the data of the survey of our readers with the data of the All -Russian survey. The conclusions refute the stereotypes that have prevailed under the influence of propaganda.

War with Ukraine in Russian public opinion Despite the fact that anti-Ukrainian sentiments have been heated by Russian state media in the mid-2000s, these efforts had not had such a significant effect, until in the 2010s propaganda connected the theme of “Ukrainian nationalism” and “fascism”, destroying a sense of unity with Ukrainians, writes Lev Gudkov, the scientific director of the Levada Center, in the article “Three Phases of Adaptation”.

Lev Gudkov The publishing house "New Literary Review" is represented by a two -volume collection of Lev Gudkov’s work “Five Totalitarianism” . Lev Gudkov is a sociologist, doctor of philosophical sciences, scientific director of the Levada Center, editor-in-chief of the magazine “Bulletin of Public Opinion”. Why did not work in Russia and the society failed to establish control of the power elites?

What is remembered by the past year by the inhabitants of Russia and what they expect from the year of the coming: the sociologist answers Photo: RIA Novosti How did 2021 reflect in the mirror of the Levada Center sociological surveys?*For one year, he ended “terribly”, which was the symbol of which was the liquidation of the Memorial **, for others, and this is the majority (almost 60% of the population of Russia), the year was difficult, worse than the 2020, but nothing special that was

Academician Sakharov through the eyes of Russians: Sociology data Moscow. December 13, 1989. Academician Andrei Sakharov in the meeting room of the congress of deputies. Photo: Vladimir Zavyalov / TASS In May of this year, the 100th anniversary of the birth of academician Andrei Sakharov, a man who was a symbol of resistance to a totalitarian state for an intellectual environment in the USSR, has been performed.

Why did the propagandists and politicians again talk about the return of the highest punishment after the events in Kazan: the analysis of Lev Gudkov The misfortune in the Kazan school gave rise to the deputies of the State Duma and the court commentators to celebrate the proposals to restore the death penalty as a means of combating crime, terrorism, tightening control on social networks and the Internet, and change the rules for the sale of weapons.

Photo: Sofya Sandurskaya / Agency "Moscow" In March 2021, the Levada Center was recognized in Russia as a “foreign agent”. We indicate this at the request of the authorities. Organizations and private individuals recognized as “foreign agents” dispute this decision in court. We do not agree with this decision and express their support to them. He conducted another survey on the topic “What the Russians are afraid of” - what causes them fear.

Photo: kremlin.ru In March of this year, as part of a regular monthly survey of Levada Center, to respondents, along with a set of ordinary questions about the attitude of the population to the activities of the president, two paired questions were asked about the achievements and failures of Vladimir Putin. What do people consider the main achievement of Putin over the years of his stay in power?

Broadcast of the press conference of Vladimir Putin Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS An ordinary arsenal of sociological means (methods) of a study of public opinion involves the use of not only individual probe or diagnostic issues that record the current state of mass consciousness (“instantic picture” of public moods), but also their regular repetition, which allows you to see the dynamics of the opinions of society as a whole or vibration of moods, views, and the assessments of individual

A rally against amendments to the Constitution in Yekaterinburg. Photo: ivana / wikicommons The outgoing year was “bad”, “unsuccessful” and “heavy” both for Russia as a whole and personally for most Russians. These are the results of a survey of public opinion conducted by the Levada Center on December 18–20 and dedicated to the results of 2020. Coronavirus is not to blame 88% of respondents believe that a year was more difficult than the previous one.

A rally against amendments to the Constitution in Yekaterinburg. Photo: ivana / wikicommons The outgoing year was “bad”, “unsuccessful” and “heavy” both for Russia as a whole and personally for most Russians. These are the results of a survey of public opinion conducted by the Levada Center on December 18–20 and dedicated to the results of 2020. Coronavirus is not to blame 88% of respondents believe that a year was more difficult than the previous one.

Lev Gudkov , Boris Dubin The publishing house "New Literary Review" represents the second edition of the book of Lev Gudkov and Boris Dubin "Literature as a social institution." “Literature as a Social Institute” is an almost peer of independent humanitarian science in Russia and one of the first books of the UFO Publishing House.

10 theses on the state of public opinion in Russia in 2019 Putin at the rally "Russia. Sevastopol. Crimea ”in Moscow, 2018. Photo: RIA Novosti The Crimean Mobilization ended in 2018, but its consequences will remain for a long time The excited state of society, patriotic euphoria radically changed the institutional system of the state. Anti -wrapping, openly anti -democratic policy restored the legitimacy of the regime weakened after demonstrations of protest of 2011-2012.

Everyone feels tightening the regime, but adapt to it, pretending that something can be fixed Samara. Photo: David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters The period of rise in national pride, consolidation around the authorities is completed for four years. Behind the phase of patriotic excitement, euphoria and collective mobilization, caused by the experience of Russia returning the status of a great power (“Crimea - ours!”).

There were no other points of support in the mass consciousness of Russians, except for the myth of the Great Victory Today, no one remembers this wonderful march: “Artillery, Stalin gave an order ...”, capturing the “correct” version of the war, approved by power. “Of the hundreds of thousands of batteries for the tears of our mothers, for our homeland - fire! Fire!" Fire by the end turns into a salute in honor of the leader.