2009 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Dubious Strength of a ‘Weak State’: The Post-Soviet Ukraine in the Nineties
verfasst von : Mykola Riabchuk
Erschienen in: Autoritarismus in Mittelund Osteuropa
Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
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