"Survival of the fittest:" Domestic and international dimensions of the authoritarian reaction in the former Soviet Union following the colored revolutions

Communist and Post-Communist Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 339-350

  Silitski, Vitali ^a  

^a Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS)   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Authoritarian backlash; Authoritarianism; Colored revolutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649839279     PISSN: 0967067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2010.10.007     Document Type: Article

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