Slavophiles and Commissars: Enemies of Democracy in Modern Russia

Trama

The book argues that the new nationalism provided opponents of reform with an apparently novel justification for their hostility to the liberalisation inaugurated by Gorbachev and erratically pursued by Yeltsin.

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