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A review of Francois Furet’s last book, The Passing of an Illusion.
Carl Gershman is the founding president of the National Endowment for Democracy.
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Conventional scholarly wisdom holds that ethnic diversity within a given society generally dims democracy’s prospects. Careful reflection on the experience of many post-Soviet states, however, suggests that this need not…