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Democracy of Despots.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773565685
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Democracy of DespotsDDC classification:
  • 320.947
LOC classification:
  • DK510.763
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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