Abstract
What has happened to the extraordinary debates over the Soviet past that undermined the Soviet system? Have the radical narratives that predominated in the late Soviet period survived in post-Soviet space? Did liberal discourse provide a durable ideological foundation for the new states that emerged after the Soviet collapse in 1991? Although it is beyond the scope of this study to answer these questions at length, it is important to address them at least briefly. I begin by examining Russia’s post-Soviet transition in terms of how the Soviet past has been reconstructed, and then briefly compare the case of Russia to that of several other new states that were formed after 1991, particularly those states in which the democratic transition has clearly succeeded or decidedly failed.
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