Is Russian Democracy Doomed? Instability and Fragmentation

Issue Date April 1994
Volume 5
Issue 2
Page Numbers 13-19
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About the Author

Peter Reddaway is professor of political science. He is author, with Dmitri Glinski, of a book provisionally titled The Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2001).

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