During his presidential campaign in June 1996, President Boris Yeltsin initiated a public debate in which he challenged Russian citizens…
As early as 1965, the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn predicted that “Time has finally run out for Communism.” He said…
Boris Yeltsin Launches a National Debate In a meeting with campaign supporters in July, President Boris Yeltsin issued a remarkable…
The collapse of the former Soviet Union and its Eastern European empire has generated much debate among analysts about the…
Political commentators have noted that the results of the December 1995 parliamentary elections in Russia reflected increasing support for the…
There is a deep mood of dissatisfaction in Russia, a mood which has led to a questioning of the most…
One of Russia’s radical reofrms during the Gorbachev years was Yuri Afanasyev, an historian and outspoken crusader for exposing the…
The restoration of morality in Russia has been a major theme of the reformers since Perestroika began. Although this theme…