This book focuses on a particular cultural domain, surveying the historical origins of Russian beliefs and behaviors, and exploring their Soviet and post-Soviet permutations. It raises provocative questions about the social, political, and economic sources of cultural change...
During the waning years of Soviet power, glasnost laid bare the distress of people trapped in a system they despised but felt powerless to change. The reexamination of values that began then continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet...