A Democracy of Despots Contributor(s): Murray, Donald (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367314223 ISBN-13: 9780367314224 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
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 |
Lexile Measure: 1170 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 he tells of the emerging democratic government is one of ambitious |