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Georgy Borshchevskiy 1
  • 1 Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, 82, Vernadsky Prospect, Moscow, Russian Federation 119571

Traditional Russian Values: Operationalization and Sociologocal Diagnostics

2025, vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 9–38 [issue contents]
In recent years, the Russian state has been increasingly pursuing a values policy. In 2022, President Putin approved the Fundamentals of State Policy for the Preservation and Strengthening of Traditional Russian Spiritual and Moral Values. In the paper we propose a measuring tool for sociological diagnostics of a number of values listed in that document, using a balanced set of statistical and sociological indicators. We use the methods of grouping, time series and trends, secondary analysis of data from representative surveys conducted by leading sociological organizations. The hypothesis about the expression and strengthening of traditional values within Russian society has mainly been confirmed. There are relevant indicators for all traditional values under analysis, though in some cases similar values combined into groups. Most of the indicators used (62 percent) improved during the 1990s–2020s. The values of patriotism, citizenship, service to the Fatherland, collectivism, mutual assistance, historical memory and continuity of generations, and unity of the peoples of Russia tend to strengthen over time. On the contrary, the family value does not correspond to the prevailing social practices. In recent years, Russians more often declare the value of family, but are less likely to officially marry, allow divorce for others and are more likely to get divorced themselves, plan and give birth to fewer children, but also abandon them less often. The value of constructive labor is difficult to interpret unambiguously as the labor productivity index fluctuates around zero, the right to work significance decreases slightly, and the assessment of the value of creation grows just as moderately, which generally indicates the contradictory nature of the phenomenon of labor in a post-industrial society. The obtained results contribute to the axiological scholar discourse and are of interest to public authorities responsible for internal policy.
Citation: Borshchevskiy G. (2025) Traditsionnye rossiyskie tsennosti: vozmozhnosti operatsionalizatsii i sotsiologicheskaya diagnostika [Traditional Russian Values: Operationalization and Sociologocal Diagnostics]. The Russian Sociological Review, vol. 24, no 3 (in Russian)
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