Russia's Future: Deadlock or Competitive Politics (reply to Whitmore)
... attempts at reform under the Soviet system ran aground when they threatened these pillars of the regime, as all of them inevitably did. All of these regime pillars are gone for good. Commando-administrative control is gone. Post-Soviet Russia has a market economy that is integrated into the world economy. The monopoly of power of the Communist Party no longer exists. Significant autonomous concentrations of power already exist, and more continue to emerge. While Communist ideology was an all-pervasive ...
30.04.2016