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This book demonstrates that the reforms of the 1990s led to a sharp
decline in the standard of living for the average Russian urbanite,
for instance in Novosibirsk. It discusses some of the difficulties
and hardships experienced by scientists in Russia.
The young Russian men and women who record in these pages the
hopes, fears, triumphs, and tragedies their country has undergone
in recent years-altering their own lives profoundly in the
process-all come from the first post-Soviet generation to achieve
positions of leadership in Russia. They report on five challenges
central to Russia's survival and stabilization: reshaping the
state, coping with new economic rules, striving toward the rule of
law, building a civil society, and preserving the national culture
and educational capacity. They love their country, while
understanding all too well the crippling psychological legacy of
seventy years of a dictatorship that was both cunning and cruel in
dispensing a plausible utopian myth and exacting extraordinary
sacrifices in the name of that myth. They understand the acute
sense of disorientation that overcame all generations when the USSR
abruptly dissolved in 1991 and the Communist Party simultaneously
lost much, if not all, of its power. As several of our authors
recall, it was like waking up one morning and finding yourself a
citizen of an entirely different country, meanwhile discovering
that your parents were not your real parents and that you had
acquired a brand new surname.
In the words of George F. Kennan, Russia remains a region where
"the conflicts of outlook and persuasion" have been as violent as
any seen in our century. As crisis follows crisis, Western
observers find the tragic complexities and cruel paradoxes of
post-totalitarian Russia no less mystifying than those they
encountered during the Soviet era. Looking beyond the horizon and
cutting beneath the headlines, in Remaking Russia eighteen
distinguished essayists of diverse backgrounds offer original
insights on the three central questions Russians are now debating
among themselves: Who are we? Where are we going? How do we get
there? Their perspectives will retain their long-term relevance
whatever the outcome of Kremlin power struggles.
The essays in this volume assess key aspects of Soviet society and
social policy under Gorbachev. It provides a survey of Soviet
family problems and demographic change, economic and labour policy,
the alcohol problem, nationality policy, and trends in culture and
communications.
The essays in this volume assess key aspects of Soviet society and
social policy under Gorbachev. It provides a survey of Soviet
family problems and demographic change, economic and labour policy,
the alcohol problem, nationality policy, and trends in culture and
communications.
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