FURMAN, Dmitri

Imitation democracies : the post-soviet penumbra - Oxford, UK : Alden Press, November-December 2008

What are the differences, and the commonalities, between the states that broke away from the USSR in 1991? Russia’s leading expert on the CIS analyses the range of regimes in the Caucasus and Central Asia, on the Baltic and the Black Sea, with a sharp comparative gaze.