Rather than a new and climactic stage in a protracted process of bureaucratic self ... that power in order to realize true Soviet democracy is to renounce Marxism altogether.

The defeat of the Left Opposition, culminating with the expulsion of Trotsky from the CPSU in November 1927, was inseparably connected with the destruction of Soviet democracy. By the mid-1980s ...

Garry Kasparov has since founded the Renew Democracy Initiative ... I grew up in the Soviet Union, on the other side of Iron Curtain, and we viewed America as a beacon of hope, fortress of ...

And that’s some kind of the same process we’re watching ... ZYGAR: As the stronghold of liberal democracy. And they compare ...

Champion chess player and Soviet dissident Garry Kasparov has a few thoughts about how well democracy in the U.S. is doing. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that it's not America first - it's America alone.