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Valerie J. Bunce is the Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies and professor of government at Cornell University.
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Why are the unfree regimes of the former Soviet world proving so durable? A lack of ideology and—perhaps surprisingly—a degree of openness are proving to be not so much problems…