Structure and context in the study of post-Soviet Russia: Several empirical generalizations in search of a theory

Demokratizatsiya

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 429-461

  Aron, Leon ^a  

^a AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC REFORM; LIFE EXPECTANCY; POST-COMMUNISM; PRIVATIZATION; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0036769807     PISSN: 10746846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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