James R. Millar is professor of economics and international affairs at George Washington University and the director of its Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies.
Read the full essay here. The regime in Moscow mixes key features of a capitalist economy with a political system wherein power is monopolized by a close-knit professional and age…
The recent "color revolutions" in the former Soviet Union should lead us to reassess the idea of revolution and also to consider the weaknesses of the concept of "democratic transition.
