THE 57th ISSUE OF THE VESTNIK EVROPY JOURNAL IS RELEASED

The latest (57th) issue of the Vestnik Evropy journal was released. This issue offers us very rich content: the history of Gaidar’s reforms; reflections on tyranny and the future of religion in Russia; a new translation of an article by Simone Weil; an interview with Vladimir Sorokin; memoirs about the human rights activist Sergei Kovalev, etc.

In the first section, which is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the transformation of the USSR into the Russian Federation, Andrei Kolesnikov describes the background history of the reforms, how the contours of the new economic policy were drawn rather impromptu, at dachas and sanatoriums. Andrei Nechaev, then Minister of Economy, tells the story of how the reforms were implemented. Dmitry Travin discusses the myths about those reforms, and Boris Minaev shows how Yegor Gaidar is viewed “through the eyes of history.”

The full electronic version is available on the journal’s website at http://www.vestnik-evropy.ru/issues/lvii/