Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield. How Russians Understand the New Russia: Consolidation and Contestation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025

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Mikhail Turchenko

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In their book How Russians Understand the New Russia: Consolidation and Contestation, Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield attempt to describe Russian politics through the prism of a collection of public opinion surveys conducted between 1993 and 2021. The rich survey data on which the book is based is its main and most obvious strength. Notably, the authors have made both the data and a codebook publicly available. This enables readers not only to replicate the analysis presented in the book but also to draw on the data for their own research needs. That said, the book may not offer sufficient depth for readers already well familiar with Russian politics.


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Dec 25, 2025
DOI https://doi.org/10.66184/2078-1938-2025-17-3-258-260

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Turchenko, M. (2025). Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield. How Russians Understand the New Russia: Consolidation and Contestation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, 17(3), 258–260. https://doi.org/10.66184/2078-1938-2025-17-3-258-260
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Vol. 17 No. 3 (2025)
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Book Reviews
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