Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup: From Democratization to Guided Democracy

Issue Date October 2001
Volume 12
Issue 4
Page Numbers 35-42
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Except for the Baltic states, the countries of the former Soviet Union may be less democratic today than in the last years of the USSR.

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