Volume 44 Issue 7 July 1994

FDR nominating Al Smith at the 1924 Democratic National Convention

'A Snarling Roughhouse'- The Democratic Convention of 1924

Edward Ranson describes how a 17-day political dogfight in New York revealed the faults in American society in the Roaring Twenties.

The Democratic Development of the former Soviet Union

Bill Wallace looks at the mixed inheritance of democratic ideas in Mother Russia and beyond as possible auguries for the future of the regimes that have succeeded the Soviet Union.