Sedova N.N. Meaningful attitudes of Russians in the context of national and societal interests. In: Russian society and the challenges of time. Book Six ...

Abstract

The material is devoted to analyzing the dynamics of Russians’ values and worldview attitudes based on the data from all-Russian polls of  the  Institute  of  Sociology  of  the  Russian Academy of Sciences for more than twenty years. Key analyzed parameters: respondents’ assessment of the path followed by Russia, the choice of a pro-Western  or  pro-Russian  civilizational  model, attitudes towards change or stability, support or nonsupport for power, attitude towards (de)centralization of power, attitude towards democratic values. Based on survey data, the similarity of trends in the development of public sentiment in 2014 and 2022 is described. The main difference is fixed in the position of young people: if, after the unification of Crimea and Russia, they generally adhered to the same basics in the spring of 2022, it was noticeably more critical, and there was a trend toward its worldview segregation.