Democracy and Liberty: The Cultural Connection

Issue Date January 1997
Volume 8
Issue 1
Page Numbers 112-26
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About the Author

Russell Bova is associate professor of political science at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He has written widely on Soviet and postcommunist politics and is currently at work on a book on democratization in Russia.

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