Русский или прусский? : размышления переходного времени

What is the vector of social and economic development of Russia in the last 20 years? How have modernization and counter-modernization combined and offset each other? Is Russia moving towards Europe or away from it? What economic, demographic, social and ethnic problems exist in Russia and the postsoviet space? Could the liberal and democratic reforms be reversed in Russia? Anatolii Vishnevskii (b. 1935), a demographer and sociologist, and editor of the periodicals Demoscop Weekly and Naselenie i Obshchestvo, seeks the answers to all these questions. This book is a collection of his recent publications in periodicals and collections.