Particularities of contemporary Russian society can be traced both to history and Russia s oral culture neweasterneurope.eu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from neweasterneurope.eu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Soviet Union leader’s was a life of dutiful progress through a hermetic, sometimes brutal world. How did he manage to save a piece of himself and become the figure he was?
The ideological proponents of privatization promised that, over time, one voucher issued to the population would be equal in value to two Volga cars. In the end, some people managed to exchange their vouchers for Gazprom shares, while others just swapped them for a pair of jeans or some vodka.