TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murray,Donald
TI  - Democracy of Despots
SN  - 9780773565685
AV  - DK510.763 
U1  - 320.947 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Montreal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich,-1931-2022
KW  - Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich,-1931-2007
KW  - Russia (Federation)-History
KW  - Soviet Union-Politics and government-1985-1991
KW  - Russia (Federation)-Politics and government-1991-
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1 An Oasis of Liberty -- 2 Searching for the New World -- 3 The First Campaign -- 4 The Day of Discussion -- 5 The Swamp -- 6 An Unofficial Funeral -- 7 Miniature, Everyday Coups -- 8 Another Country ... Another Man -- 9 The Final Coup -- 10 The Rebel -- 11 Raskol -- 12 A Higher Value -- 13 Russia Returns to Its Roots -- 14 Confrontation Still Lives in Our Souls -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- Y -- Z
N2  - Long-time Moscow correspondent Donald Murray analyses the creation of the first authentic parliaments in the Soviet Union and Russia and shows how Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin used and abused the democratic institutions they helped make possible
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