Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267227 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9994
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Much of the literature on patriotic sentiment in post-Soviet Russia leans on the results of public opinion surveys administered to Russian citizens. Absent a comparison group, such evidence, while helpful, can leave one adrift in trying to assess the significance of any particular polling result. Here, we draw on a shared set of questions from multiple waves of the Inter-national Social Survey Program's National Identity and Role of Government modules, as well as the World Values Survey, to benchmark the responses of Russians to those of citizens in a diverse group of middle and high income countries. This exercise highlights that while Russians are not unusual in the degree to which they have a benign attachment to and/or pride in their country, they stand out for espousing a patriotism that has remained consistently blind and militant since at least the mid-1990s. We speculate as to the underlying cause and highlight a potential consequence: the nature of Russian patriotism has lowered the cost to the Russian leadership of military aggression.
Subjects: 
patriotism
Russia
post-imperial syndrome
JEL: 
P00
P20
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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