What were your biggest takeaways from this great work? What affected you personally? Has anyone read Svetlana Alexievich? If not, please consider her book titled Secondhand Time. Perhaps if anyone would like to discuss the Russian Federation--as is--its transition to a free-market economy, its soft-authoritarian system of governance, and how capitalism has affected the Russian people since 1991, let's engage in a discussion.

Something I don't hear very much from Peterson--as much as I love him--are the stories of pain and suffering resulting from Russia's adoption of free market capitalism: shock therapy, the 1998 default/financial crisis (GKO bubble), oligarchy/kleptocracy, elimination of upward mobility, shootouts in the streets during the 1`990's, continued and more sophisticated propaganda, et cetera.