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?

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