Stephen Kotkin
WSJ Opinion: Free Expression
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The Problem With Russia's Predilection for Autocracy
It's not a cultural phenomenon. The West is just more powerful than Russia, and it's true again today. What happens to the strong state is we end up with personalist rule," he says. And then the worst is a conflation between the survival of that single person's rule and the survival of the country. It's our job to drive a wedge through that.
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