ABSTRACT
Russia had voted its pains and frustrations—of which there were undeniably plenty—and its disaffection with Yeltsin, who though not a member was in a sense responsible for the creation of the Nash Dom-Rossiia (NDR). Russians had voted their emotions, frustrations, pocketbooks, and pains—more, it seemed, than their hopes—and they had spread these broadly. Aleksandr Shokhin, who had begun 1992 as minister of labor and then moved to broader economic responsibilities in the cabinet and a deputy premiership, ran on the NDR—the so-called party of power—national list in the Moscow oblast. Though the situation looks quite cloudy in early 1996—in the wake of both the 1995 Duma elections, in which large numbers of Russian voters expressed a protest against economic pains. The experience of socialism in Russia has proved that either we think about retribution, about expropriation of the ex-proprietors, or we work toward a productive market economy and private property.
