This study analyzes self-reported life satisfaction for individuals living in former Soviet Union countries both before and after the fall of communism. A number of variables are analyzed that impact the degree of change in life satisfaction....

America is falling, and may not be here without change, as we know it, in our life time, just as the U.S.S.R. suddenly fell in the 1990\'s, ruining that Super Power and ending the cold war, with hundreds of thousands of refugees having to flee Russia. With reports of human meat being sold as the currency [rubble] became worthless, as the U.S.S....