Titlebook: Russian Pluralism; Now Irreversible? Uri Ra’anan,Keith Armes,Kate Martin Book 1992 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 19

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Toward a Multiparty System?y (but not all) of the republics, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) seems to be defeated; its central organs (the Politburo and the Central Committee) have been dissolved. However, the members of the . still maintain a grip over many parts of the former Soviet Union, albeit under differ

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Civil Authority and the Security Organsthe USSR’s collapse left little room for optimism that true reform would come soon. Throughout that period, however, intensive efforts were made to project the illusion that the state security bodies, the Interior Ministry, and the military were under direct democratic control of a partially elected

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Individual and Group Rightsn. The disintegration of the Soviet Union was inevitable. It was caused by the fact that its totalitarian structure was incapable of prolonged survival, given the economic structure that had been provided. The first, timid attempt to change this economic framework was carried out under Alexei Kosygi

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The “Independent Media”rtantly, widespread self-censorship inspired by fear. Now that these factors have largely disappeared from Russian life, it is reasonable to expect that diversity and independence will be the rule for newspapers and broadcasting in the future. But can we be sure?

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The Impact of Foreign Broadcastslent postwar decades, mainly due to their influence within the political and cultural elite of the USSR. However, during the three days of the August 1991 coup attempt, their impact spread across all social strata and acquired critical importance.

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