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The sections of state bureaucracy joined the expanding
financial-industrial business interests to redivide and privatise
the former state assets |
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Frailty of Russia’s democratic institutions (parliament, trade
unions, political parties, the press, etc.) |
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The party-parliamentary system was unable to establish a cooperative
framework with the reformist government (the parliamentary majority
was controlled by the communists) |
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The government looked for anchor of stability and found it in the
powerful financial-industrial groups
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The government grew dependent on and entwined
with powerful economic interests |
