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Yeltsin's Health and the Protestant Ethic in Russia |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Dmitry Shlapentokh |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1998 |
| Size: 3,602 Words, 24,084 Characters |
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Quite a few Russians view democracy as liberation from all moral restraints, and the market economy as meaning that everything is now for sale. Prostitution, drug running, crooked financial dealings, and the like are merely profitable businesses, the everyday stuff of capitalism. For others, the transformation of drab Soviet Moscow into a bustling and attractive Western-style city is a sign that the country is joining the Western order. Economists point to the opening of private banks and enterprises and a stock exchange of sorts, and politicians to contested elections, as signs that the country is becoming increasingly Westernized. They also point to the freedom of the press--today publications full of venomous hatred for the regime are openly sold in downtown Moscow.vbcrlf &nb...
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...jor changes in Russian life, changes that for more than seventy years were deemed irreversible. If the bad kidneys of Yuri Andropov, whom many believe was the last Soviet ruler with a chance to save the empire, were in some way the cause of the demise of the Soviet regime, then Yeltsin's heart complications could have a decisive impact on the course of Russian, and possibly global, history. vbcrlf
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