A Canadian historian analyzes the state of political and economic affairs in Belarus, suggesting that the surface appearance of political stability is illusory. He proceeds to demonstrate that fissures within the political elite will widen under pressures generated by the parlous state of the economy, traced to dependence on energy imports from Russia, and a number of sensitive socio-political issues that have undermined the legitimacy of conservative rule. The study, based on interviews and documents collected in Minsk in 1992 and 1993, incorporates the September, 1993 agreement on economic union within the CIS and the October events in Moscow. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: P20, H10, Q43.
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