Is Russian Democracy Doomed? Zhirinovsky’s World

Thirty years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia is firmly in the grip of an autocrat. Where did Russia’s path go wrong?

The first two months of the war alone turned the Russian clock back decades, undoing thirty years of post-Soviet economic gains and reducing the country to an international pariah state.

A review of Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia by Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw.