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

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  • MMMichael McFaul
    Michael McFaul
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Abstract
If it is accepted that Russia’s transition to democracy began in the mid-Gorbachev years, it is one of the longest in recent history. Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan define a successfully completed democratic transition as the moment when “sufficient agreement has been reached about political procedures to produce an elected government, when a government comes...