The aim of the survey: to prove, using sociological methods, that some people in Moscow have a so-called Soviet mentality and some have a liberal mentality.At the everyday level and at the level of expert debates and discussions, this fact raises no doubts. It is accepted as reality by default....

We examine the value of a statistical life (VSL) in interwar Soviet Union. Our approach requires addressing the preferences of Stalin. We model these on the basis of the policy of statistical repression, which was an integral part of the Great Terror. We use regional variation in the victims...