The Post-Soviet Puzzle

Issue Date July 2002
Volume 13
Issue 3
Page Numbers 166-168
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A review of Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin, by Michael McFaul.

About the Author

Thomas F. Remington is visiting professor of government at Harvard University and Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science (emeritus) at Emory University. His books include The Returns to Power: A Political Theory of Economic Inequality (2023).

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