Where is Russia Headed? Toward Stability or Crisis?

Issue Date January 1997
Volume 8
Issue 1
Page Numbers 12-26
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About the Authors

Lilia Shevtsova

Lilia Shevtsova is the author of Interregnum: Russia Between Past and Future (2014) and Putin’s Russia (2010). 

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Scott A. Bruckner

Scott A. Bruckner is director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. A version of this essay will appear in the Carnegie Endowment’s forthcoming volume Russia After the Soviet Collapse.

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