But, as its title indicates, the Stent-Shevtsova article predicted that regardless of the election's outcome there would be no return to the old days. This makes the short section dealing with the Russian economy even more interesting. Some Russian regions have begun to reverse privatization, reinforcing the great economic diversity across the country. This majority includes not only industrial workers but agricultural workers as well. This has not happened.
Most agricultural workers are quite happy with an eight-hour day and a paycheck.
They want to be part of a larger social unit that enables them to take vacations, get medical care, and send their kids to school. They have no desire to work the whole family to death on a little private plot of land and then have to deal with rising and falling crop prices in a capitalist market. Election Not Decisive There can be no doubt, of course, that the counter-revolution is still intent on consolidating capitalism, by hook or by crook. Many, many questions are left unanswered. Yeltsin won re-election for the most dubious reasons.