A Communist Party without Communism

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s anointment of Alexander Medvedev to succeed him shows that Russia’s leaders have not changed a whit. Putin's goal now will be to construct an omnipresent political party that will reduce the state to a legal fiction.

PRINCETON – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s anointment of Alexander Medvedev to succeed him in what is supposed to be a democratic presidential election next March shows that Russia’s leaders have not changed a whit. It looks increasingly likely that, as under Leonid Brezhnev, we will see the same names in the news for decades to come.

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