those in Russia and the West who are eager to justify the Kremlin's new authoritarianism as a necessary evil," Starr says, there is "ample evidence that Rus-
sians, freed from fear, possess as much ini- tiative and capacity for independent action as do members of other developed soci- eties in Europe, Asia, and the Americas." The West, he says, should accept "at face value" the democratic movement in the Soviet Union, not "belittle it simply be- cause it has not, in...