A Matrix for Post-Soviet ‘Color Revolutions’: Exorcising the Devil from the Details

International Area Studies Review

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 3-22

  Baev, Pavel K ^a  

^a PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OSLO PRIO   (Norway)

Author keywords

authoritarianism; color revolutions; democracy; elections; post Soviet states

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993661094     PISSN: 22338659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/223386591101400201     Document Type: Article

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