15 July 1997 DESPITE THE CONTINUING ECONOMIC recession, the “social explosion” predicted by some oppositionists failed to materialize in Russia in 1996. Poverty and crime were more acute problems than in Soviet times, but Russia’s social fabric was still, if barely, intact. The costs of ongoing deprivation were borne at household level: families survived by pooling their resources and seeking […]
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