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The reforms ignored the mentality of the majority of Russians |
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Is it possible to create overnight a bourgeois society and
capitalist relations of a Western type in a society that for over 70
years has officially repudiated them? |
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The reforms benefited big business tycoons
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The growth of the middle class remained slow |
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In 1999, 41.5% of Russians lived below the
poverty line
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Some characteristics of popular mentality and political culture in
Russia are not easily compatible with capitalist habits of mind |
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Russia needs its own model of capitalism with Russian
characteristics |
