Russia fails to grasp democratic ideals: sociologist
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - 11:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The brutally repressive Soviet Union Vladimir Shlapentokh left behind 33 years ago may have opened its borders to the world, but today's Russia has become wracked with greed, corruption and mass emigration that threaten the nation's future. So argues Shlapentokh, a Michigan State University sociologist, in the academic journal Communist and Post-Communist Studies.