Russian Capitals and the Russian Provinces Prospects of Conflict Resolution

Abstract

Recently we, the perestroika generation, have been returning more and more frequently to our starting point, to the beginning, where we discover to our horror that, caught up in the excitement of change, we had a very shaky understanding of the country in which we were living, of its population's interests, and of ways that we might help it. We had a very vague notion of what changes our population needed. The irreparable occurred. The capital's intelligentsia began to present its own hopes and aspirations as national interests and as the interests of ordinary people.