Bulletin of public opinion

From 1993 to 2003, the publishing team, while working at VTsIOM, created and published the journal Public Opinion Monitoring . ^[1] In 2003, after the forced transfer of the VTsIOM research team to the Levada Center, and after the Federal Antimonopoly Service banned the team from using the previous name of the journal, the Public Opinion Bulletin was created. That is why the magazine has been numbering since 1993. ^[2]

The journal is registered by the Ministry of the Russian Federation for the affairs of the press, TV and radio broadcasting and mass media PI No. 77981 dated December 10, 2003. In 2003, 2 issues were published, in 2004-2008 the magazine was published 6 times a year. Since 2009, the magazine is published 4 times a year.

A part of the journal is devoted to the results of the monitoring of socio-economic changes, the program of which was developed by the team under the leadership of academician Tatyana Zaslavskaya in 1992-1993. Within the framework of monitoring, the population’s assessments of the country's economic situation (since 1993 ), attitude to economic reforms (since 1994 ), protest potential (since 1993 ), indicators of optimism (since 1994 ), trust in political leaders (since 2000 ), etc. are monitored.

The other part contains scientific articles on the main aspects of the life of Russian society. The journal constantly published articles by Yuri Levada , united by a common idea about the "Soviet man" (Homo Soveticus, the main research project of the former VTsIOM and the current Levada Center , which continues today. In 2008 , the fifth wave of research was conducted with the support of the Liberal mission " ). There are constantly articles by Lev Gudkov , Boris Dubin , Leonid Sedov , Alexey Levinson , Marina Krasilnikov and other employees of the center. Russian sociologists, political scientists, researchers are published: Boris Grushin , Leonid Gordon , Igor Kon , Leonid Keselman , Tatiana Vorozheikina , Emil Pain , Sergey Pashin , Nikolai Petrov , Georgy Satarov , Valeria Stelmakh, and others. The works of foreign specialists - researchers from Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, USA, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries.

From 1993 to 2006 - Yuri Levada (1930–2006).

From 2006 to the present - Lev Gudkov .

• T.I. Zaslavskaya (chairman)
• A.G. Aganbegyan
• A.G. Vishnevsky
• THOSE. Vorozheykina
• B.A. Grushin (1929–2007)
• L.M. Drobizheva
• O.R. Lacis (1934–2005)
• Yu.A. Levada (1930–2006)
• N.M. Rymashevskaya
• T. Shanin
• V.A. Poisons
• E.G. Yasin

1. ↑ From VTsIOM to Levada Center - a conversation with sociologist Boris Dubin , a series of interviews “Adults”, part II on the Polit.ru portal
2. ↑ Boris Doktorov Life in search of the “real truth”. Notes to the biography of Yu.A. Levada Archival copy from October 14, 2007 on Wayback Machine / Social Reality, 2007, №6

• Information about the magazine and the selection of numbers on the site of Levada Center
• “The social rift and the birth of a new sociology: Twenty years of monitoring”, 2008 - selected journal articles published by the New Publishing House
• The Journal of Public Opinion in the Library of Congress
• Journal of Public Opinion at the Central European University Library (CEU)
•   - Levada Center community in LiveJournal
• Collections of the results of the main studies of the Levada Center for different years (in doc and pdf formats)