Authors: Sarah E. Mendelson and Theodore P. Gerber
January/February 2006
Foreign Affairs
Polls show that most young Russians hold ambivalent or even positive views of their country's worst dictator. Such attitudes stem not from defects in the Russian character, but from a massive failure in education. The West can help, and must do so fast.
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