RUSSIA:
Aleksandr Lebed the Great*

By John B. Dunlop

Former General Aleksandr Lebed is convinced that the United States wants to take over Europe, that the old USSR must be put back together, and that he himself is a man of destiny, right up there with Peter the Great. Ready for the scary part? By Russian standards, he's sane. A portrait by Hoover fellow John B. Dunlop.

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John B. Dunlop is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.