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world's most important and reputable publishers declines to proceed with a book not because of its scholarly quality... but because the subject matter itself is too hot to handle". Dawisha clarified that her indignation was not directed at CUP but at the climate in
Britain that allows "pre-emptive bookburning". The
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independent of, and more powerful than, the state into a corporatist structure in which oligarchs served at the pleasure of state officials, who themselves gained and exercised economic control... both for the state and for themselves". As a result, 110 individuals control 35% of Russia's wealth,
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The Consolidation of Democracy in East Central Europe
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