Democracy After Communism

Book Overview

The last quarter of the twentieth century was marked by two dramatic political trends that altered many of the world's regimes: the global resurgence of democracy and the collapse of communism. Was the process that brought down communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union fundamentally different from the process that gave birth to new democracies in other regions of the world? Were the transitions away from communism mostly like or mostly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801870763
• ISBN13: 9780801870767
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Multiple views of Russian Democracy

This is a compilation of essay put together by the editors of Journal of Democracy. I enjoyed the different points of view who disagreed on certain points but concurred on many of the major issues. I read this for a graduate course along with History of Modern Russia by Robert Service, Russia at the Polls by Christopher Marsh and used Contemporary Russian Politics by Archie Brown.