Is Russian Democracy Doomed? A Communist Setback

Issue Date April 1994
Volume 5
Issue 2
Page Numbers 23-27
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About the Author

Stephen Sestanovich is professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served from 1997 to 2001 as ambassador-at-large and special advisor to the U.S. secretary of state for the former Soviet Union.

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