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040 _aUk
_beng
_cUk
_dEG-ScBUE
082 0 4 _a320.947
_222
_bPOL
245 0 0 _aPolitics in Russia :
_ba reader /
_cJoel M. Ostrow, editor.
264 1 _aLos Angeles, California :
_bCQ Press / SAGE Publications :
_cc.2013.
300 _axvi, 488 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c 23 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
505 0 _a 1. An introduction to the Soviet political system. "Introduction" from Soviet Politics, 1917-1991 / Mary McCauley ; "Terror as a system of power" / Merle Fainsod ; "Soviet stability and its sources / Seweryn Bialer -- 2. The collapse of the Soviet Union. "What was Socialism and why did it fall?" / Katherine Verdery ; "Glosnost gutted the party, democratization doomed the State : political liberalization and the Soviet disintegration" / Joel M. Ostrow ; "Causes of the collapse of the USSR" / Alexander Dallin -- 3. Core tasks for postcommunist Russia. "Crucial junctures and the demise of democracy in Russia" / Joel M. Ostrow, Georgiy A. Satarov, and Irina M. Khakamada ; "The democratization of Russia in comparative perspective" / Zvi Gitelman ; "Ten myths about Russia : understanding and dealing with Russia's complexity and ambiguity" / David Fogleson and Gordon M. Hahn -- 4. The economy : market capitalism or institutionalized corruption? "A normal country : Russia after communism" / Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman ; "The triumph of bureaucratic capitalism / Lilia Shevtsova ; from "Comrade criminal" and "The criminal state" / Steven Handleman -- 5. The executive and the legislature. "Liberal technocrats as an adornment of the State" / Lilia Shevtsova ; "Inside the Putin Court : a research note" / Ol'ga Kryshtanovskaya and Stephen White ; "Majority control and executive dominance : Parliament-President relations in Putin's Russia" / Paul Chaisty -- 6. Political parties. "Party politics in Russia : from competition to hierarchy" / Vladimir Gel'man ; "Political opposition in Russia : a dying species?" / Vladimir Gel'man ; "Russia's client party system" / Stephen White ; from "Symptoms of the failure of democracy in Russia" / M. Steven Fish -- 7. Elections. from "Corrupting the elections : enter the oligarchs" and "Abandoning democracy : anointing a successor" / Joel M. Ostrow, Georgiy A. Satarov, and Irina M. Khakamada ; "Russian elections : an oxymoron of democracy" / Misha Myagkov and Peter C. Ordeshook ; from "Symptoms of the failure of democracy in Russia" / M Steven Fish -- 8. Nationalism and Chechnya. "The specter of Russian Nationalism" / Rafael Khachaturian ; "Chechnya : a dirty war 1999-2002" / Anna Politkovskaya ; "[Conclusion]" / Marlène Laruelle -- 9. The media. "Dictatorship becomes the only game in town" / Joel M. Ostrow, Georgiy A. Satarov, and Irina M. Khakamada ; from "Symptoms of the failure of democracy in Russia" / M. Steven Fish ; "Constrained or irrelevant : the media in Putin's Russia" / Masha Lipman ; "Russia : why do journalists die?" / Oleg Panfilov ; "Rebirth of Russian Nationalism" / Oleg Panfilov ; "Remembering Paul Klebnikov : journalism of intimidation" / David Satter ; "All the news the Kremlin thinks is fit to print / Dmitry Sidorov.
651 7 _aRussia (Federation)
_xPolitics and government
_y1991-
_2BUEsh
_98179
653 _bBUSBOL
_cFebruary2019
700 1 _aOstrow, Joel M.
_eeditor.
942 _2ddc
_cBB