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Russian Politics: Challenges of Democratization. Edited by Zoltan Barany and Robert G. Moser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 260p. $55.00 cloth, $20.00 paper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2004

Peter Rutland
Affiliation:
Wesleyan University

Extract

Academic writing about the democratic transition in Russia remains heavily politicized, as was writing about the Soviet Union. Authors line themselves up as critics and defenders of the reform project of the incumbent leader—Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and now Vladimir Putin.

Type
Book Reviews
Copyright
2003 by the American Political Science Association

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