The Russian elite under Putin: Militocratic or bourgeois?

Post-Soviet Affairs

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 125-144

  Rivera, Sharon Werning ^a   Rivera, David W ^a  

^a HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; DEMOCRACY; GOVERNMENT; MILITARY INTERVENTION; POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT; POLITICAL INSTABILITY;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 33748798185     PISSN: 1060586X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1060-586X.22.2.125     Document Type: Article

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