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The Zhirinovsky Electoral Victory: Antecedence and Aftermath

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Terry D. Clark
Terry D. Clark*
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Creighton University, Omaha
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The December 1993 elections to the new lower house of the Russian legislature, the State Duma, resulted in a large number of seats going to parties and movements opposed to the Yeltsin reforms. Most dismaying for the democrats, however, was the attainment of seventy seats by the Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) headed by ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. As a consequence, the progress of economic and political reform was undermined, Yeltsin having been denied the mandate which he sought with the dissolution of the Supreme Soviet in October.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 23 , Issue 4: Twentieth Anniversary Issue , December 1995 , pp. 767 - 778
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Copyright © 1995 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe and ex-USSR, Inc 

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