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A scholar cannot only look at society with the eye upon the concerns of the Russian intelligentsia, which did indeed breathe a collective sign of relief after withstanding the Great Purge of the late 1930s, Stalin's "Doctor's Plot," and other acts of paranoia. (Fitzgerald, pp.135-161) but many of Stalin's inefficient economic schemes, such as running the economy as a series of five-year plans were retained. One cannot easily separate economic from political growth and development. Finally, under the leadership of Brezhnev, Russian Communist society came to a virtual standstill, leading to its collapse as a viable economic system in 1989. For more than thirty years, the land experienced, rather than growth or use of its considerable natural and human resources, a period of long-term stagnation. During this time, most ordinary Russians had little hope for their futures, that the lives of their children would be better than their current lives, unless they fell into favor with the ruling regime. One could even argue that the Russians of this period were without the motivating hope of things getting better than their grandparents had endured under the czar, or of Russia improving because of the introduction of a new ruling ideology, another consolation granted to their earlier ancestors.

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Finally, one can also note that even though Russians may have experienced some material 'positives' during this time, rather than the death of Stalin, one could just as easily attribute the improvement to the absence of outward attacks. There were no more German onslaughts, as transpired upon Stalingrad, as vividly and horrifyingly depicted in Brian Moynahan's photojournalistic account of the 20th century history of Russia, Russians to had a slightly more peaceful existence than at the beginning of the era, under Stalin -- but it was a political and economic 'peace' of a Cold War stalemate between the major powers, rather than a period of real growth, a period of ideological and economic stagnancy.

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