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Democracy After Communism
Larry Diamond (Ed.)
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Description for Democracy After Communism
Paperback. Tamas formerly of Georgetown University; Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland at College Park; Grigory Yavlinsky, member of the Russian State Duma (parliament). Editor(s): Diamond, Larry; Plattner, Marc F. Series: A Journal of Democracy Book. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; JPFC; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
The last quarter of the twentieth century was marked by two dramatic political trends that altered many of the world's regimes: the global resurgence of democracy and the collapse of communism. Was the process that brought down communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union fundamentally different from the process that gave birth to new democracies in other regions of the world? Were the transitions away from communism mostly like or mostly unlike the transitions away from authoritarianism that took place elsewhere? Is the challenge of building and consolidating democracy under postcommunist conditions unique, or can one apply lessons ... Read more
The last quarter of the twentieth century was marked by two dramatic political trends that altered many of the world's regimes: the global resurgence of democracy and the collapse of communism. Was the process that brought down communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union fundamentally different from the process that gave birth to new democracies in other regions of the world? Were the transitions away from communism mostly like or mostly unlike the transitions away from authoritarianism that took place elsewhere? Is the challenge of building and consolidating democracy under postcommunist conditions unique, or can one apply lessons ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
A Journal of Democracy Book
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801870767
SKU
V9780801870767
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About Larry Diamond (Ed.)
Larry Diamond is a senior fellow in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and co-editor of the Journal of Democracy. Marc F. Plattner is editor of the Journal of Democracy at the National Endowment for Democracy.
Reviews for Democracy After Communism
A thoughtful collection of essays on the hazards, practical and conceptual, of one of the monumental changes in world affairs in our time.
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