Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

Democracy in Iran? The Demographics Say Yes

It takes a maturing population to succeed at revolution. Think of Tunisia's. And Iran's.

January 2, 2018 at 2:40 PM UTC

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

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