The Price Russians Pay (Russian Edition)

It is difficult to deal with a country you do not completely understand. It is difficult to work with people, whose motives, ways of thinking, and traditions of behavior are different from yours. For the majority of people on Earth, it was hard to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union and the strange, irrational behavior of the Soviet-Russian leaders—Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin—in the last twenty-nine years. Sometimes they seemed smart and cooperative, while other times their behavior was unreasonable from the rational standpoint. This book helps to understand the nature of the Russian man and motives of his behavior. This book, written by Russian psychologist associate professor Vladimir P. Zakharov, is devoted to the mentality of the Russian man. The author has analyzed the known historical and political events using a psychological approach. It is not an easy task to write about people of certain ethnical origins in general. It is just like measuring the average temperature of all patients in a hospital. However, prevailing typical models of behavior settled for centuries determine the history and destiny of the nation. Each person may behave differently and create a private action, but for some inexorable way the resultant of many private actions generates an overall event or result that belongs only to this ethnical group, as a unique community of people. This is the second Russian-English edition.