Out of the frying pan, into the fire? Post-Soviet regime changes in comparative perspective

International Political Science Review

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Gel'man, Vladimir ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY AT ST PETERSBURG   (Russian Federation)

^b NONE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Elites; Political conflict; Post communism; Regime change

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149122557     PISSN: 01925121     EISSN: 1460373X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192512107085610     Document Type: Article

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