Post-Soviet Democratization and the Authoritarian Counteroffensive - Adrian Basora
2017 History Institute "What is Eurasia? And Why Does It Matter?" Ambassador Adrian Basora, Senior Fellow and co-Director, FPRI Eurasia Program presenting Post-Soviet Democratization and the Authoritarian Conteroffensive After the Warsaw Pact and the USSR collapsed in 1989-1991, there was rapid progress towards democratization in Eastern Europe, and in some of the former Soviet republics, initially including Russia itself. Today, only three of the fifteen former Soviet states are democratic, while most of the rest are solidly autocratic. There has also been serious regression further West, most notably in former democratization front-runners Hungary and Poland. What explains this sharp reversal of what Francis Fukuyama once called "The End of History"?
