ABSTRACT
An important concern for United States (US) researchers has been to elucidate foreign policy attitudes that pertain to strategic interactions, strategic sufficiency, and understandings of the security dilemma. A major source for Soviet attitudes remains the Soviet Interview Project (SIP), an omnibus in-person survey administered in Russian in 1983 to 2,793 former Soviet citizens, most of whom migrated to the US in 1979 or 1980. With regard to attitudes toward spending for foreign and military policy, for instance, we know from the SIP Survey that attitudes among the general public preceded the shift in policies and postures by the Soviet leadership. The implication of the security dilemma was little known among Soviet mass publics or even among university-educated, non-specialist publics in the Soviet Union. The December 1988 survey asked whether the Soviet Union was right or wrong to send troops to Afghanistan.
