What Went Wrong in Russia? The Perils of a Protracted Transition

Issue Date April 1999
Volume 10
Issue 2
Page Numbers 4-18
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About the Author

Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, is professor of political science at Stanford University, director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His most recent book is From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia (2018).

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