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"Here Come the Russian" captures in short sketches and anecdotes the historical periods in early Philadelphia and Washington, DC, when the Russian Empire's Ministers Plenipotentiaries and then Ambassadors (after April 1898) lived and worked closely with the American governmental officials and the president. Many of the Russian officials were well received. Three ministers married American wives and two individuals made mistakes and were recalled by their home government

"This book, with theoretical and practical analyses of comparative political systems of Eastern countries (Asia and Africa), their political process and political cultures, describes and analyses the influence of political culture on political process in the Eastern world. It gives readers an opportunity to make a comparative appraisal of maturity of civil society in these countries as well as their specifics in political interactions and internal political competition seen through the eyes of a group of distinguished Russian researchers. The book concentrates also on specifics of political-economic and political modernization in the East, and assesses the prospects of an emergence of a Western as well as a non-Western democracy in the framework of Eastern political transformations. It also explains why the one-dimensional spread of democracy — completely negating or neglecting regional political-cultural specifics — may lead to war among civilizations instead of the formation of a more just and fair system of democratic governance."--Publisher's website