The World through the Eyes of the People of Today (The World through the Eyes of Soviet People)

Political attitudes of Soviet citizens. Questions on French-Soviet
relations.

Topics: judgement on selected government measures in connection with
the 27th party convention of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union;
attitude to ´Perestroika´; expected influence of ´Perestroika´ on
increase in food prices; perception of drug addiction as a danger to
the country; judgement on quality of television programs; knowledge
about Sacharow; satisfaction with the achievements of the public health
system; most significant historical and modern-day personality of the
Soviet Union; attitude to the death penalty; expected influence of
changes taking place in the USSR on the relationship to the West and
the international situation; preferred type of music; assessment of the
probability of another accident in a Soviet nuclear power plant as well
as of the efforts of the Soviet Government to prevent further nuclear
accidents; judgement on relations of the USSR to the USA, France, the
Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, China and India;
satisfaction with the status of the relations between the USSR and
France and judgement on changes in these relations in the last year;
judgement on economic, cultural and political cooperation between the
USSR and France; area with the greatest progress in cooperation;
spontaneous naming of three French words; naming preferred
representatives of France; knowledge of selected events from
French-Soviet history; country with the closest friendship to France;
positive or negative judgement on the French people; spontaneous naming
of persons associated with France; knowledge about the nationality of
the space ship of the first flight of a French Cosmonaut; perceived
threat to the Soviet Union or France from nuclear weapons as well as
conventional, non-nuclear weapons of the respective other country;
knowledge about the French language; use of French-language media and
type of media used; judgement on the objectivity of information from
French sources or Soviet media; perceived intervention of France in
internal matters of the USSR; attitude to nuclear weapons as well as a
nuclear or conventional conflict in Europe, an increase and
modernization of the French nuclear arsenal, first use of nuclear
weapons by the USSR or France as well as peaceful solution of European
problems and contribution of abstaining from nuclear weapon tests to
the reduction in the arms race; knowledge about the Berlin Wall as well
as attitude to removal of the wall; attitude to removal of all nuclear
weapons in Europe; preferred area of a pan-European cooperation;
judgement on the military balance of powers between NATO and the Warsaw
Pact; preferred travel countries outside of the East Bloc; probability
of outbreak of a third world war; desire for a meeting between
Gorbachev and Reagan as well as judgement on the chances for success of
negotiations; perceived danger from a simultaneous reduction in Soviet
and American medium-range missiles; judgement on progress in the area
of military technology regarding greater security or additional danger
of war; most important friend and greatest enemy of the Soviet Union.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; respondent has
children; current education level; employment; institution at which
respondent is studying (e.g. college, technical college, vocational
technical school); occupational position; earlier participation in
surveys; optimistic or pessimistic future expectations.