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Episode: /425/ Reading Club: Russia's Imitation Democracy (sample)
Description: On the late Dmitri Furman's account of post-Soviet Russia.
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We continue our discussions along this year's themes (rise and fall of nations; Russia past and present) by tackling Imitation Democracy: The Development of Russia's Post-Soviet Political System.
Why has there been a revival in interest in the late Soviet and early post-Soviet period? And in the global 1990s in general?
What does it really mean to be without-alternative?
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