I wrote:>> ... there was also the class issue of workers vs. bureaucrats.<<
Chris D. :>Which Yeltsin appealed to brilliantly -- "we must get rid of the priviliges of the bureaucrats!" (This sounds hilarious today, at a time when bureaucrats in Russia live at a level beyond their wildest Soviet dreams.)< many of the bureaucrats (and a lot of black-market traders, etc.) transformed themselves into capitalists. It wasn't the first time that the upper classes won a class struggle. It also wasn't the first time that populist rhetoric (the quote from Yeltsin) was part of their victory. JD
