Is Russian Democracy Doomed? Zhirinovsky’s World

Issue Date April 1994
Volume 5
Issue 2
Page Numbers 27-32
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About the Author

John B. Dunlop, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the author of Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict (1998), The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire (1993), and The New Russian Nationalism (1985).

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