Cover photo by Igor Timoshenko | Photographs on the following pages were taken by Deborah Adelman: | | 118 | | Photographs on the following pages were taken by Aleksandr Efremov: | | 16, 56, 106, 166, 174 | | Photographs on the following pages were taken by Igor Timoshenko: | | 36, 82, 98, 132, 142 | | Narratives translated by Deborah Adelman | Copyright © 1994 by Deborah Adelman All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, New York 10504. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Adelman Deborah. The Children of Perestroika come of age: young people of Moscow talk about life in the new Russia / by Deborah Adelman. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1-56324-286-9 ISBN 1-56324-287-7 (p) 1. Young adults-- Russia (Federation)--Moscow--Attitudes. 2. Youth-- Russia (Federation)--Interviews. 3. Russia (Federation)--Social conditions. I. Title. HQ799.8.R92M68 1993 305.23′5′0947--dc20 90-10936 CIP Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences--Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. ∞ + ⃝ BM (c) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 BM (p) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 -iv- |