A gloomy but informative discussion of the shape post-Soviet society has taken

and may be expected to take in the future. DR: "My feeling about Reagan is that he

played an incredible, somewhat instinctual role, a somewhat political and very hard-

headed role in the collapse of the Soviet Union." ... "There is a lot of disenchantment

among the people who were in the forefront in the late Eighties or early Nineties. People

who ... saw Dostoyevsky scholars liberating Russia from its enslavement, all of a

sudden found themselves poor and ignored and irrelevant.... What was needed in

society were not saints, scholars, and truth-tellers, but accountants, traders, whatever is

needed to build a capitalist nation."