The Return of Russian Nationalism

A review of Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of Governability, by Atul Kohli and The Politics of India Since Independence, by Paul Brass.

The failures of post-Soviet reform notwithstanding, serious strides have been made toward economic and political transformation.

The regime in Moscow mixes key features of a capitalist economy with a political system wherein power is monopolized by a close-knit professional and age cohort whose members often have…