Rebuilding Russia : reflections and tentative proposals / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ; translated and annotated by Alexis Klimoff
Imprint
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991
Descript
119 p. ; 20 cm
CONTENT
First priorities -- At the end of our endurance -- What is Russia? -- A word to the great Russians -- A word to the Ukrainians and the Belorussians -- A word to the smaller nationalities and ethnic groups -- The process of separation -- Urgent measures for the Russian Union -- Land -- The economy -- The provinces -- Family and school -- Is the system of government really the central issue? -- Taking our own measure -- Self-limitation -- Looking ahead -- Concerning the forms of government -- What democracy is and what it is not -- Universal and equal suffrage, direct elections, secret ballots -- Electoral procedures -- Representing the people -- How it can turn out -- Political parties -- The democracy of small areas -- The zemstvo -- Stages in the transfer of power -- A combined system of government -- Concerning the central authorities -- A cumulative body -- Let us search