Under the general heading "Political Sociology of the Transitional Society" we are continuing to publish the investigations of the moods and views of Russians carried out by the independent Public Opinion Foundation.* This fifth issue of our journal acquaints the reader with an attempt, undertaken for the first time in Russian sociology, to compare the socioeconomic and political attitudes of inhabitants in the different regions of Russia, and also with materials offered exclusively to Polis by the Public Opinion Foundation containing extensive comments by Professor I. M. Kliamkin, Doctor of Philosophy and head of the Foundation's Analysis Center. These findings are from a survey conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation in early September 1993, that is, literally on the eve of the denouement of the political standoff between the executive and legislative structures. This information, which sheds light on people's state of mind in Russia, should give investigators liberal food for further reflection.