I remember that one of the most interesting things about the exile, already in the late 90s, was how much of their most razorsharp analysis was not about Russia, but about the US. It's the first place where I read deconstruction of the pundits' common wisdom on 'capitalism', laced with their experience of post-Soviet Russia (which I could realte to).

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes