Russia's stillborn democracy? : from Gorbachev to Yeltsin /

This study of the failure of democracy in Russia after the collapse of the USSR traces the origins of that failure into the Soviet era, and shows how the political elite built a system based on maximising their own power, rather than the people's.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gill, Graeme J.
Other Authors: Markwick, Roger D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:This study of the failure of democracy in Russia after the collapse of the USSR traces the origins of that failure into the Soviet era, and shows how the political elite built a system based on maximising their own power, rather than the people's.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 280 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index.
ISBN:0585347662
9780585347660
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