Editing Generation X (section)

==== Russia ====
In [[Russia]], Generation Xers are referred to as "the last Soviet children", as the last children to come of age prior to the downfall of [[communism]] in their nation and prior to the [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union]].<ref name="McCrindle">{{cite news|last1=McCrindle|first1=Mark|title=Generations Defined|url=http://mccrindle.com.au/resources/whitepapers/McCrindle-Research_ABC-01_Generations-Defined_Mark-McCrindle.pdf|access-date=18 June 2016|publisher=McCrindle Research Center|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616232732/http://mccrindle.com.au/resources/whitepapers/McCrindle-Research_ABC-01_Generations-Defined_Mark-McCrindle.pdf|archive-date=16 June 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Those that reached adulthood in the 1980s and grew up educated in the doctrines of [[Marxism]] and [[Leninism]] found themselves against a background of economic and social change, with the advent of [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] to power and ''[[Perestroika]]''. However, even before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disbanding of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]], surveys demonstrated that Russian young people repudiated the key features of the Communist worldview that their party leaders, schoolteachers, and even parents had tried to instill in them.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bernbaum|first=John A|date=9 July 1996|title=Russia's "Generation X": Who Are They?|url=http://beam-inc.org/russias-generation-x-who-are-they/|website=beam-inc.org|access-date=9 March 2020|archive-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718085934/http://beam-inc.org/russias-generation-x-who-are-they/|url-status=usurped}}</ref> This generation, caught in the transition between [[Marxism–Leninism]] and an unknown future, and wooed by the new domestic political classes, remained largely apathetic.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Stanley|first=Alessandra|date=6 June 1996|title=To Win Russia's 'Generation X', Yeltsin Is Pumping Up the Volume|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/world/to-win-russia-s-generation-x-yeltsin-is-pumping-up-the-volume.html|journal=The New York Times|access-date=9 March 2020|archive-date=6 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200906220252/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/world/to-win-russia-s-generation-x-yeltsin-is-pumping-up-the-volume.html|url-status=live}}</ref>