Notes
This article is a considerably revised version of a paper presented in Russian to the Russian‐American Academic Conference: ‘Politics and Society in the West and in Russia: Current Problems’, Saratov State University, Russian Federation, 18–22 May 1992. The author would like to thank Gul'nara Davletshchina and Elena Osokina for the original translation into Russian, L. V. Danilova for valuable contributions to both the style and content of the paper and V. S. Bibler, V. P. Danilov, Ya. S. Drabkin, M. Ya. Gefter, E. N. Gorodetsky, A. Ya. Gurevich, Boris Kagarlitsky, S. S. Neretina and Danilova for allowing extensive interviews and/or access to their papers. Thanks also to Graeme Gill for suggestions about this revised version of the paper.