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Between Dictatorship and Democracy

Hardcover • 2004 • English

Between Dictatorship and Democracy

By Michael McFaul

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For hundreds of years, dictators have ruled Russia. Do they still? In the late 1980s, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev launched a series of political reforms that eventually allowed for competitive elections, the emergence of an independent press, the formation of political parties, and the sprouting of civil society. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, these proto-democratic institutions endured in an independent Russia. But did the processes unleashed by Gorbachev and continued u...Show more

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9780870032073

Publisher

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Published year

2004

Language

English

Original title

Between Dictatorship and Democracy

Format

Hardcover

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