Sore Spots: How Past Repression Shapes Present Responses to Autocratic Coercion

• In Event: History, War, and Repression

Brief Overview

Using surveys and data on Stalinist repression, we show that past violence shapes attitudes to present-day repression: crackdowns on protests lower Putin's support where past repression was higher and increase support where past repression was lower.

Authors

• Quintin H. Beazer, Florida State University

• Noah Buckley, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

• Holger Lutz Kern, Florida State University