Survey data from over 12,000 respondents in Czechia, France, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia explores variation in public attitudes towards Russia's aggression against Ukraine. The dataset, created by Filip Kostelka, includes results from an original survey and the Solidarity in Europe survey. It was last updated on May 11, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze the link between partisan alignment and pro-Kremlin attitudes based on respondents' preferred political parties.
- Investigate the role of disinformation in shaping neutral or supportive views of Russia's aggression.
- Compare the explanatory power of top-down versus bottom-up public opinion models for foreign policy attitudes.
- Examine the influence of economic interests and ideological preferences on support for the aggressor.
- Study cross-national variation in mass attitudes towards the Russo-Ukrainian War across European countries.
Strengths
- Original survey spans over 12,000 respondents.
- Includes data from five specific countries: Czechia, France, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.
- Combines original survey data with the Solidarity in Europe survey, which has more than 24,000 respondents from seventeen countries.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count for the primary dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the selected European countries.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Original survey and the Solidarity in Europe survey.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-11 14:51:07; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Czechia, France, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and seventeen other European countries.