Incidence
The fall of the USSR and the disastrous process of subsequent transition, led to a vaccuum of belief in Russia.
Counter-claim
The reason people have so much trouble understanding the world or understanding the nature of man is that at the bottom level there is no determinate, formed, finished thing there to be understood. There is no one answer to the question of the meaning of life, but meaning is created by individual faiths and comes true for the individual to the extent of moulding and making meaningful even the surrounding objective world, at least to some degree. Meaning is created and creates its own world and its own fulfilment. The meaning of life, and the primary effort of life, is to participate in the creation of the universe, to create a world with meaning or significance, or lacking them.