Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup: Disillusionment in the Caucasus and Central Asia

Issue Date October 2001
Volume 12
Issue 4
Page Numbers 49-57
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In the southern reaches of what was once the USSR, democracy seems far off. Can that change?

About the Author

Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr., is senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. Since 2006, he has been living in Tbilisi, Georgia, where he is also professor of Soviet and post-Soviet systems at Ilia State University.

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