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Article: Statist quo. (free-market reform in Russia)
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- Reason
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- March 1, 1994
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In Russia, the pace of reform will slow even more--and the reformers are largely to blame.
RUSSIA'S DECEMBER 12 ELECTIONS leave free-market reformers with only one piece of good news. After years of linguistic confusion in which Marxists were described as "right-wing" and reformers as "left-wing," we are finally hearing labels that contemporary U.S. political observers can understand. Vladimir Zhirinovsky's party, which has now surged to the forefront of the antimarket opposition, calls itself the Liberal Democrats.
Zhirinovsky is routinely labeled a "fascist" in the Western media, but he does not use that term himself; in fact, he has filed lawsuits against ...