Is Russian Democracy Doomed? Explaining the Vote

Issue Date April 1994
Volume 5
Issue 2
Page Numbers 4-9
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About the Author

Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, is professor of political science at Stanford University, director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His most recent book is From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia (2018).

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