"自布尔什维克革命以来,党的领导层便竭力遏制年轻人天生的桀骜不驯。共青团是其主要手段,七十年来这一组织无孔不入。“只要有青少年聚集,”曾写书记录共青团消亡过程的哥伦比亚大学教授史蒂文·索尔尼克(Steven L. Solnick)这样写道,“在工厂和战场,在兵营和宿舍,战斗时和收割时,建筑工地和街头角落——都有共青团组织者如影随形。”[3]在这个社会里,国家容不得其他声音,只有党能够发声,青年们几乎不可能加入任何私立协会。共青团试图独掌14岁至28岁年轻人的生活,尽管其领导者往往年长得多。"
"When Putin took office in 2000, the central problem he faced was what to do with this inheritance[Yeltsin stumbled when it came to erecting the new institution, civil society, rule of law...].There was no going back to the Soviet Union,, But what would follow the tumultuous Yeltsin year?"
""Afer Khpdorkovsky's arrest in 2003, his oil company, Yukos, was driven into bankrupcy and stripped of it's valuable assets by the Russian authorities. A windfall -- the prized oil production subsidiaries -- went to the state-owned oil company Rosneft. (If politicians keep SOEs, they have more effic"