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The Collapse of Liberal Hopes

Russia's clumsy attempt at democracy has soured the population.


BY JOSHUA RUBENSTEIN

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT

More than a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West has only begun to confront a disheartening paradox: That at the height of Mikhail Gorbachev's program of glasnost and perestroika in the late 1980s, the prospects for democratic reform seemed more promising than they do today in a nominally democratic post-Soviet era.

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