Mikhail Tulsky. Russian political sociology: reasons for success and failure
Russian political sociology: reasons for success and failure Mikhail Tulsky Date of publication: October 2, 2001 Mass political polls in Russia began to be conducted in 1988. Before that, sociology was developing, but polls were conducted almost exclusively on non-political topics (family, production, choice of profession, culture) and were often not published at all (and were reported only to the top party leadership) or were published in highly specialized small-circulation publications.