Subversive Institutions: The End of the Soviet State in Comparative Perspective

Post-Soviet Affairs

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 323-354

  Bunce, Valerie ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; POLITICAL CHANGE;

EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0032440235     PISSN: 1060586X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.1998.10641456     Document Type: Article

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