Historical events that inspire a feeling of shame for the country among Russian students
Historical events that inspire a feeling of shame for the country among Russian students (number of study participants that mention the event as a percentage of the overall number of Russian study participants. Events listed in the table were mentioned by > 1% of those polled, N=1399).
Historical event/category of events |
% |
Stalinist repression |
18 |
The disintegration of the USSR |
11 |
The Revolution of 1917 |
9 |
Execution of the Romanov royal family |
6 |
The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 |
5 |
The “joining” or “annexation” ofCrime, 2014 |
4 |
The Civil War, 1917-1922 |
4 |
The War in Afghanistan, 1979-1989 |
3 |
Selling Alaska to the USA, 1867 |
3 |
World War I |
3 |
Boris Yeltsin's presidency |
3 |
Soviet rule, “communism” |
2 |
“The wild 1990s” |
2 |
Serfdom |
2 |
The Chechen Wars, 1994-1996, 1999-2009 |
2 |
Relations with Ukraine today |
2 |
The rule of Ivan IV (known as Ivan the Terrible), 1533-1584 |
2 |
The Crimean War, 1853—1856 |
2 |
The February Revolution, 1917 |
2 |
The Tatar-Mongol Yoke, 1237-1480 |
1 |
Vladimir Putin's presidency (his third term) |
1 |
Perestroika, 1986-1991 |
1 |
The October Coup d’état of 1993 (the 1993 Constitutional Crisis) |
1 |
Nikita Khrushchev's rule (Corn, and his speech at the UN, 1960) |
1 |
The Time of Troubles (Polish intervention), 1598-1613 |
1 |
The Red Terror, 1918–1922 |
1 |
Mikhail Gorbachev's presidency (prohibition) |
1 |
Other |
32 |
There are no such events ("You cannot be ashamed of your history!") |
9 |
Difficult to say |
36 |
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