The dilemmas of Russia's anti-revolutionary revolution

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Volumn 100, Issue 648, 2001, Pages 330-335

  Hanson, Stephen E ^a,b  

^a Department of Political Science ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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References (4)

1. One of the few exceptions is Michael McFaul, who has repeatedly argued for the revolutionary nature of Russia's postcommunist transformation. See McFaul, Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001).
2. See also Vladimir Mau and Irina Starodubrovskaya, The Challenge of Revolution: Contemporary Russia in Historical Perspective (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2001)
3. and Robert V. Daniels, "The Anti-Communist Revolutions in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989 to 1991," in David Parker, ed., Revolutions and the Revolutionary Tradition in the West, 1560-1991 (New York: Routledge, 2000).
4. Russia's opaque and often corrupt banking practices have barely changed. For an excellent account of failed post-Soviet efforts at banking reform, see Juliet Johnson, A Fistful of Rubles: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Banking System (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000).