Julia Felsenthal searches for other countries' version of the American Dream:
U.K. Labour Party leader Ed Miliband coined the phrase "the British Promise", meaning that each generation can and will do better than the last, but it hasn't caught on. After the fall of the Soviet Union, both Boris Yeltsin, in 1996, and Vladimir Putin, in 1999, asked advisers to think up a "national idea" or a "Russian idea" to replace the outdated Soviet/Communist ideologies. But the search eventually turned into a bit of a joke, and the phrase never came to embody one particular notion.
Matt Steinglass offers an older example, the "Russian idea" from the 19th and early 20th centuries:
It was a fuzzy mixture of philosophical, moral, political and aesthetic notions, along with a certain vision of what "the good life" looked like—much like the American dream. … Though, unfortunately, the disastrous political and economic system Russia settled on in the 20th century pretty much ended that attraction.
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