8 Dell’Ariccia, Zettelmeyer, and Schnabel (2002) argue that the more-substantial response of global financial  markets to the Russian default was because investors were expecting Russia to be rescued from having to default by the International Monetary Fund, and there was a global retreat from risk when that did not happen.
4 Surveys like the two I just mentioned are informative, but getting a full picture also requires hearing from knowledgeable people with diverse perspectives on these issues.