Gorby's bad Russian

ChrisD(RJ) chrisd at russiajournal.com
Mon Apr 15 23:19:58 PDT 2002


Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:30:15 -0700 From: Brad DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> Subject: RE: Gorby's bad Russian


>I would not say there was less social mobility under Brezhnev compared to
>today. Farmer's son could go to study in the Moscow State University or any
>other prestigious educational institution.

Unless they were Jews, of course... ------------------- This varied a lot depending on the era you are talking about. Half the students in a friend's mathematics university program in the early 80s were Jewish. A lot of them are now in Israel.

Chris Doss The Russia Journal



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