Download or read book Russian Culture at the Crossroads written by Dmitri N Shalin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the waning years of Soviet power, glasnost laid bare the distress of people trapped in a system they despised but felt powerless to change. The reexamination of values that began then continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past but dynamic and evolving, enabling Russians to meet the challenges t