Russia Under Putin: Can Electoral Autocracy Survive?

Issue Date July 2000
Volume 11
Issue 3
Page Numbers 36-3
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Vladimir Putin soon must make a fundamental choice: whether to hold on to monolithic power or to adopt a reformist course that could leave him at the center of a battle without any guarantee of success.

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