After the Collapse of Communism
Subtitle: Comparative Lessons of Transition
Contributors: Michael McFaul (Editor); Kathryn Stoner-Weiss (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 6, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521834841
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Politics / Current Events; Former Soviet republics; Essays; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics - Current Events; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); General; Europe - Former Soviet Republics; History & Theory - General; Political Science / General; Congresses; Politics and government; Post-communism; Russia (Federation); 1989-; Europe, Eastern
First sentence: Today, twenty-eight nation-states founded on the principle that a nation has a right to a state of its own stand where, a little over a decade ago, nine states had vowed to replace nations with socialist internationalism.