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E-book
Author Sakwa, Richard

Title Russian politics and society / Richard Sakwa
Edition 3rd ed
Published New York : Routledge, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 542 pages) : maps
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface to the third edition; Acknowledgements; Note on style, spelling and transliteration; Glossary of acronyms, acrostics and terms; The fall of communism and the rebirth of Russia; Soviet communism and its dissolution; The disintegration of the USSR; Political institutions and processes; The new constitutional order; Law and society; The executive; The legislature; Electoral politics; Party development; Federalism, regionalism and nationalism; Federalism and the state; Regional and local politics
National identity and state-buildingEconomy and society; Marketising the economy; Society and social movements; Cultural transformation; Foreign policies; Foreign policy; Commonwealth, community and fragmentation; Defence and security policy; Dilemmas of democratisation; Problems of transition; Pluralism, elites, regime and leadership; Democracy in Russia; Notes; Select bibliography; Index;
Summary Since its first publication in 1993 this book has become an indispensable guide for all those interested in the current political scene in Russia, about political stability and the future of democracy under its post-communist leadership
Notes Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 524]-526) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Post-communism -- Russia (Federation)
Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics
Politics and government
Post-communism
SUBJECT Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006576
Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government
Subject Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001048670
ISBN 0415227526
9780415227520
0415227534
9780415227537
0203465660
9780203465660
9780203208137
0203208137