Two Decades of the Reform in the Eyes of a Sociologist
Post-Soviet reforms did not ruin Russia, like all former cataclysms in its history could not do it. But the cost of the losses was tremendous. The results of the reformers’ orgy in the 1990’s can appear more painful than those of the former catastrophes in Russian history. At the time when many contemporary countries developed successfully we not only stopped developing but experienced setbacks in a number of directions. Again Russia has to catch up with the leading countries, and this time they are not only Western ones.