What Went Wrong in Russia? The Feudalization of the State

Issue Date April 1999
Volume 10
Issue 2
Page Numbers 47-53
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About the Author

Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr., is senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. Since 2006, he has been living in Tbilisi, Georgia, where he is also professor of Soviet and post-Soviet systems at Ilia State University.

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