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Do Russians Support the War in Ukraine?

A group of sociologists found that few Russians were steadfast supporters of the war. Most had something more complicated to say.

‘Do you prefer Pepsi or Coke?’ But, when it comes to horribly complex, painful things like a war, it’s not useful.” Nonetheless, Morris acknowledged the power of numbers: Levada’s seventy-plus-per-cent pro-war figure has framed a lot of perceptions, including inside Russia. The group had been founded, in 2011, by Erpyleva, Oleg Zhuravlev, and Natalia Savelyeva, graduate students at the time, who wanted to practice an in-depth and theoretically sophisticated sociology in the tradition of Pierre Bourdieu, who had subjected the French class system to withering scrutiny. Lab to the Prague Linguistic Circle, founded by Roman Jakobson and Nikolai Trubetskoy, among others, in the nineteen-twenties, after they left Bolshevik Russia—a small, self-contained research unit of extremely devoted people whose work on the structure of speech changed the way we view language and the self.

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