"Few peoples have had to undergo the variety of successive shocks – liberation, depression, expropriation, attrition, demotion – that Russians have endured in the last decade and a half. Even if these, historically considered, are so far only a brief aftermath of the much vaster turbulences of the 20th century, it is no surprise that the masses are ‘profoundly tired and resistant to any public mobilising’. What they will eventually make of the new experiences remains to be seen. For the moment, the people are silent: Pushkin’s closing line applies – ‘narod bezmolvstvuet.’(人文与社会按:即“人民是沉默的”,普希金戏剧《鲍利斯·戈都诺夫Boris Godunov 》末行,穆索斯基据该剧改编成歌剧,1955、1986两次拍成电影。)"