| A Democracy Of Despots Contributor(s): Murray, Donald (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813328942 ISBN-13: 9780813328942 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1996 Annotation: In "A Democracy of Despots" correspondent Donald Murray provides an eyewitness account of the struggle for power in the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev and in Russia under Boris Yeltsin, showing how both men used and abused the democratic institutions they helped make possible. The story tells of the emerging democratic government is one of ambitious men and women who optimistically launched their experiment in democracy only to find themselves at war with one another and mired in the habits of rule by fiat. It was this approach, Murray argues, that eventually discredited not only presidents Gorbachev and Yeltsin but also the leaders and advisers who joined them under the democrats' banner and that led many Russian citizens to support the reformed communists in the 1995 elections. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
| Dewey: 320.947 |
| LCCN: 96010664 |
| Lexile Measure: 1170 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.21" W x 9.24" (0.87 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
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| Publisher Description: This book describes the creation of the legislature and its role in the momentous upheaval which brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union. It examines the role of parliamentary institutions in the bitter struggles which have marked the first years of the independent Russian Federation. |