The first question that any would-be Russian reformer should ask nowadays (and which we did not ask during Gorbachev's perestroika) is the following, is society prepared to endure the short-term pains of reforms, and how willing it is to endure the pain?
时至今日，自诩为俄国改革家的人们需要理解的第一个问题是（这个问题他们在戈尔巴乔夫的重组改革中并没有弄懂）：俄国社会是否准备承受改革所带来的短期阵痛，以及他们愿意忍受到何种程度？