Free Market
Author:
Yuri N. Maltsev
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The Free Market 14, no. 8 (August 1996) “We Russians are doomed to teach mankind,” wrote philosopher Grigory Chaadayev in 1848, “some awful lesson.” The lesson turns out to be more than proving socialism’s brutality and futility. It is also about the unlikelihood that elections alone will resolve a deep social and economic crisis. After the