Article: Is this Weimar Russia?(comparing Germany's Weimar Republic to Russia in 1990s)(Abstract)

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U.S. News & World Report
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November 16, 1998
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MOSCOW--The president is old, tired, and very possibly senile. Hyperinflation is making the currency worthless. Once a great power, the country feels beaten down, and its weak democracy may soon be crushed by a hybrid of nationalism and socialism. Is this Russia in the 1990s? Or Germany on the eve of Hitler taking power?

It could be either. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, several prominent historians have called attention to the frightening parallels between contemporary Russia and Germany's Weimar Republic, which lasted from 1918 to 1933. But never has the comparison seemed as apt as it does today, with the Russian economy in shambles and ...

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