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Nearly 50 years ago, in a seminal book on totalitarianism, Zbigniew Brzeziński and Carl Friedrich scornfully remarked that they would not discuss constitution or structure of government of the systems in question – because there is little if anything to discuss. All these institutions that are really important in liberal democracies, are of dismal importance in totalitarian party-states; all of them, the scholars contended, are nothing but windowdressings, empty forms with no essence.
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Riabchuk, M. (2009). Dubious Strength of a ‘Weak State’: The Post-Soviet Ukraine in the Nineties. In: Maćków, J. (eds) Autoritarismus in Mittelund Osteuropa. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91615-6_12
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