The only Reader on post-Soviet Russian politics, this important book brings together the best published work from a wide variety of sources. Unusually for a Reader, it also includes many up-to-date, specially commissioned contributions. Some forty of the world's leading specialists on Russian politics, a third of them Russians, cover institutional design, elections, parties, federalism, regional politics, presidency and legislature, economic reform and economic interests, foreign policy, public opinion, the mass media, and prospects for democracy.
Substantial editorial introductions to every section provide the student with essential background information, detailing the historical development, contemporary relevance, and current debates for each topic area and each individual chapter. The chapters themselves have been carefully selected and edited to be as useful and relevant as possible to all students of contemporary Russian politics,
With analysis of major recent developments, including the Duma election of 1999, the Presidential election of 2000, and the institutional changes launched by President Putin, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to political institutions and processes in Putin's Russia.
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This is a carefully winnowed collection of some of the best articles - Western and Russian - from the second half of the decade ... the selection of the articles and their grouping into twelve sections was a rigorous process. ...The book's aim is to give students of Russian politics easy access to a wide range of material that might otherwise have escaped their attention. In this it succeeds admirably ... Moreover, Archie Brown's introduction to the volume and to each section, as well as his concluding chapter, would make a worthwhile book in themselves.' International Affairs, Oct 2001 'This is an excellent reader bringing together papers from a wide variety of sources. It will be widely used by teachers and students of contemporary Russian politics.' THES, November 2001 'As a collection of key, previously published articles and specially commissioned chapters, Brown creates an extremely comprehensive and expertly detailed book. Many of the previously published articles come from notable Russian journals that would otherwise not be accessible to English-speaking readers....This book should indeed furnish the shelves of any student of Russian politics....It is, very probably, the most comprehensive and the most educative book on Russian politics currently on the market.'Jen Tracy, former reporter for the 'Moscow Times' and special issues editor of the online journal 'Transitions Online.' 'Students of Russia's transition have received the solid and comprehensive reader they have long been waiting for, thanks to the outstanding efforts of Archie Brown... If Russian policymakers charting the course of further transition were to make this volume their reader, they would certainly save the country a lot of trouble.' Journal of Peace Research 'In itself Brown's volume is clearly one of the most comprehensive and high-quality volumes available for the classroom today.' Mark A. Cichock, Political Studies, Vol 50 No. 4
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Archie Brown is Professor of Politics at Oxford University and Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre at St Antony's College, Oxford, where he has been a Fellow since 1971. His book, The Gorbachev Factor, won the W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize of the Political Studies Association of the UK for best political science book of its year and was also joint winner of the Alec Nove Prize for best book on Communism, Post-Communism, or Russia. Professor Brown was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1991 and is currently Chair of its Political Studies Section.
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Director, Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford, and Professor of PoliticsDirector, Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford, and Professor of Politics, University of Oxford
INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN ; THE PRESIDENCY AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP ; THE LEGISLATURE AND THE LAW ; ELECTIONS AND THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM ; PROBLEMS OF PARTY FORMATION AND CONSOLIDATION ; ECONOMIC REFORM: POLITICS, INTERESTS, AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES ; PUBLIC OPINION, POLITICAL BELIEFS, AND THE MASS MEDIA ; RUSSIAN STATEHOOD AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION ; FEDERALISM, REGIONALISM, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ; RUSSIA AND THE WORLD ; THE RUSSIAN TRANSITION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE ; IS RUSSIA BECOMING A DEMOCRACY?
