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Russian Post-Communist Political Reform
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March 2004
On Sale: March 1, 2004
386 pages ISBN: 0870032062 EAN: 9780870032066 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
For hundreds of years, dictators have ruled Russia. Do they
still? In the late 1980s, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
launched a series of political reforms that eventually
allowed for competitive elections, the emergence of an
independent press, the formation of political parties, and
the sprouting of civil society. After the collapse of the
Soviet Union in 1991, these proto-democratic institutions
endured in an independent Russia. But did the processes
unleashed by Gorbachev and continued under Russian President
Boris Yeltsin lead eventually to liberal democracy in
Russia? If not, what kind of political regime did take hold
in post-Soviet Russia? And how has Vladimir Putin’s rise to
power influenced the course of democratic consolidation or
the lack thereof? Between Dictatorship and Democracy seeks
to give a comprehensive answer to these fundamental
questions about the nature of Russian politics.
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