Kravchuk and Yeltsin at reelection

Demokratizatsiya

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 294-304

  Brooker, David ^a  

^a ALVERNO COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Boris Yeltsin; Democratization; Elections; Leonid Kravchuk; Political leadership; Ukrainian politics

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; DEMOCRATIZATION; ELECTION; POLITICS;

EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UKRAINE;

EID: 65749175616     PISSN: 10746846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/DEMO.16.3.294-304     Document Type: Article

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