Two Sides of the New Russia

Issue Date July 1995
Volume 6
Issue 3
Page Numbers 56-71
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About the Author

Lilia Shevtsova is the author of Interregnum: Russia Between Past and Future (2014) and Putin’s Russia (2010). 

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