Post-Soviet Political Order
Subtitle: Conflict and State Building
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 22, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780415170697
First sentence: When empires come crashing down, they leave hunks of institutional wreckage scattered across the landscape: pieces of bureaucracies, military units, economic networks, administrative districts, as well as demographic and cultural patterns that bear the marks of the imperial past. '