2011
20 Years Without the Berlin Wall: A Breakthrough to Freedom
This book focuses on the outcome of transformation in Russia and other post-communist nations, comparing Russia’s experience with that of the Central and Eastern European states. The book’s authors, including leading Carnegie Moscow Center experts, pose the question: What is the reason behind Russia’s stalled reforms? They argue that a policy that leads to the dismantling of civil liberties in the country and uses strong-arm tactics externally is a dead-end. While the demolition of the Berlin Wall is no guarantee of success, democratic transformations are a necessary precondition for the country’s modernization and strong, modern international profile, as well as for citizens’ welfare.
© 2011 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Author:
Natalia Bubnova, Sam Greene, Alexei Arbatov, Lilia Shevtsova, Andrei Ryabov, Maria Lipman, Nikolay Petrov, Alexey Malashenko, Peter Topychkanov, Dmitri Trenin
Editor:
Natalia Bubnova
ISBN/EAN:
978-5-8243-1537-0
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Chapters:
- Foreword
- Freedom
- Russia’s Own Imperial Road
- The Fall of the Berlin Wall: A Time to Reflect on Why Things Are Not As They Should Be...
- No Institutions
- A Society of Political Indifference
- Russia’s Regional Elites in 2010: Twenty Years On
- What Happened to Democracy: Society at the Crossroads
- “Religious Expansion” and Foreign Policy
- Minorities in a New World
- A Study of Russian Foreign Policy from 1992 to 2010
- Conclusion
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