Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup: From Democratization to Guided Democracy

Issue Date October 2001
Volume 12
Issue 4
Page Numbers 35-42
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Except for the Baltic states, the countries of the former Soviet Union may be less democratic today than in the last years of the USSR.

About the Author

Archie Brown is emeritus professor of politics at Oxford University and emeritus fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. His most recent book is Seven Years That Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective (2007).

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