> Oh yeah. But there is little question as far as I know that > the Russian peasantry worked in a cycle of frenzied activity > alternating with relative lethargy. Actually there has been a > lot of speculation that this is the reason for Russian > culture's non-existent work ethic ...
don't a lot of people blame the lack of incentives to work during the old Soviet times? (as in "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us"?) Jim Devine
