The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy: Parties, Personalities, and Programs (Hoover Institution Press Publication) - Hardcover

McFaul, Michael; Markov, Sergei

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0817992316 ISBN 13: 9780817992316

Publisher: Hoover Institution Press, 1993

Synopsis

The demise of communism in the Soviet Union could not have occurred without the activism of dissident, anticommunist leaders who created a climate that gave ordinary Russians the courage to stand up to and defeat communist control. But with communism ousted, what new form of government and what new leaders will emerge in Russia, a society that has never known democracy? Michael McFaul, a Western scholar studying at Moscow State University, and Segel Markov, an assistant professor at Moscow State University, interviewed anticommunist parties in the months preceding and immediately following the August 1991 attempted coup d'tetat. To examine the range of the political spectrum in Russia, they also talked to procommunist leaders who emerged to oppose Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, nationalist and anti-Semitic leaders of movements such as Pamyat', labor unions, Christian movements, and organizations opposed to the division of the Soviet Union.

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About the Author

Michael McFaul is the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a professor of political science at Stanford. An expert on international relations, Russian politics, political and economic reform in post-communist countries, and U.S. foreign policy, he is director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law at the Freeman Spogli Institute, where he also serves as deputy director.

Sergei Markov is an assistant professor at Moscow State University in the faculty of Russian Politics and has been a visiting scholar in the Political Science Department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has served as a political consultant on the Russian government and parliament.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817992316
• ISBN 13: 9780817992316
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 317