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After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia.(Review) (book review)

American Political Science Review,  March, 2001  by Remington, Thomas F.

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After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia. By Daniel S. Treisman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 262p. $57.50.

Daniel Treisman offers an ingenious explanation for the fact that the Russian Federation held together after the collapse of the Soviet regime. Unlike the three other ethnic federations in the communist world--Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and the USSR itself--the Russian Federation, which was the largest of the 15 nationally based constituent republics in the Soviet Union, avoided disintegration. Many observers in the early ...

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