As in 1917, the drift towards authoritarian government…

While the behavior of the Russian government, Putin and Putin punks are abhorrent, nothing will be changed by boycotting the Sochi Winter Games. In…

— David Mixner

When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under…

— Svetlana Alexievich

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now…

— Richard Lugar

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought the last Soviet generation was going to be the great hope for democracy. When that failed, their…

— Masha Gessen

One of the most influential of the post-Soviet books was the Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin's 'Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization' (1995), a study…

— Keith Gessen

In the post-Soviet era, the most interesting work on the Stalinist period has been social history, far beyond the Kremlin walls - the study…

— Keith Gessen

“Scholars generally understand post-Soviet nostalgia as something more than a simple longing for the return of the Soviet past (Boym 2001; Ivanova 1997; Nadkarni…

— Helena Goscilo

When we talk about authoritarianism, we conjure up out-of-date visions from the 1930s. But we are no more likely to do authoritarian government the…

— David Frum

There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels,

— Thomas Ferguson

Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

If people want consultative government, the price is increased complexity and delay in arriving at decisions. If they want speed of government, then they…

— John James Cowperthwaite

Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?

— Yasheng Huang

The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.

— Franz von Papen

...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to…

— Arundhati Roy