Editors
Dmitri N. Shalin
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
First page number:
1
Last page number:
24
Abstract
When Mikhail Gorbachev unfurled his reform banners in the late 1980's, many observers inside and outside Russia hailed perestroika as a moral renaissance. The Soviet Union was indeed a spiritually bankrupt society at the time, its citizens demanding a clean break with the past and yearning for a better future. Despite the new openness or glasnost, the changes have been slow in coming and often very controversial. A public opinion survey conducted in February 1991 showed the country morally adrift and deeply divided about the course of reforms.
Keywords
Communism and culture; Ethics; Glasnost; History; Moral conditions; Russia; Soviet Union
Disciplines
Asian History | Cultural History | European History | History | Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures | Political History | Slavic Languages and Societies | Social History
Language
English
Repository Citation
Kon, I.
(2012).
Moral Culture: Public Morality and Private Responsibility. In Dmitri N. Shalin,
1-24.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/russian_culture/3
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