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To: goldsnow who wrote (8476)	5/15/1999 1:20:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 17770

Whether of not the Volga river has changed course has absolutely no bearing on whether or not Russia can finally emerge from bloody autocracy.Nor is it true that social change is glacially slow. It is certainly slower than many liberals acknowledge, and subject to more variables than can be closely controlled. But observable historical processes tell us that many things change over 50 years, many more over 100, and so on...As I said, the garb that was standard for gentlemen at the time of the Revolution has not only ceased to be customary, but is in disfavor. In Russia, the masses are over a century from serfdom, have been exposed to nearly universal education, are part of the global culture of mass media, have been experiencing the common trends of industrialization and urbanization, and in other ways are a "Volga" already flowing through a much altered channel....