Slow helplessness

For a quarter of a century, sociologists have been interested in the Russians with their interpretation of the events of August 91st. The society has passed from mass mobilization to learned helplessness, gradually displacing the meaning of Augustus from historical memory. It is on universal apathy that the power of the heirs of the State Emergency Committee is holding today, said Lev Gudkov, director of the Levada Center.

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Lev Gudkov: Sociology of Augustus