Zaslavskaya's arguments evolved over time. In the Second Socialist Revolution she imagined the possibility that the USSR was experiencing a democratic revolution that would make Russia genuinely socialist. In the next two decades she puzzled over the form and nature of the transition that actually took place in Russia arguing in 1999 that it was some kind of revolution but then in 2002 concluding that "there was no new social revolution in Russia." She saw social change as occurring through crises involving "random transformation" as in the 1990s the Yelt'sin group lost control of the situation. This led her to try to devise various analyses of social groupings and models of change which tended to description and classification.T.Zaslavskaia, 'On the social mechanism of post communist transformation', Sociological Research, vol. 42 no.6, 2002, 00. 69-90.
