Question 1
the immediate results of "shock therapy" were far from encouraging. Inflation reached 30% a month, prices skyrocketed, salary payments were delayed, and - by some estimates - the poverty rate in Russia reached 40%. Were Russians protesting this major economic instability, marching in protest around the Kremlin or showing other notable signs of social unrest?
With the post-1991 transition, in the 1990s Russian film and publishing industries blossomed