Putin’s Deep Freeze

Issue Date January 2004
Volume 15
Issue 1
Page Numbers 167-178
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A review of Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000 by Timothy J. Colton and Michael McFaul; Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State by David Satter; and Putin’s Russia by Lilia Shevtsova.

About the Author

John Squier is program officer for Russia and Ukraine at the National Endowment for Democracy.

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