What Went Wrong in Russia? Controlling The Military-A Partial Success

Issue Date April 1999
Volume 10
Issue 2
Page Numbers 54-67
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About the Author

Zoltan Barany is Frank C. Erwin Jr. Centennial Professor of Government at the University of Texas–Austin. He is the author most recently of States Without Armies: Why They Exist and How They Survive (forthcoming).

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