Cover; The Decline of Regionalism in Putin's Russia: Boundary issues; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; Note on transliteration; 1. The puzzling decline of regionalism in Russia; 2. Regions, regionalism, and regional boundaries; 3. A brief history of Russia's regional boundaries; 4. Putin's federal districts and regional identities; 5. Constitutions, charters, and institutional boundaries; 6. The push for regional enlargement; 7. Assessing the boundaries approach to regionalism; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book reassesses the process whereby after 2000 Putin reversed the process by which in the 1990s power had shifted from Moscow to the regions. It focuses on the dynamics of regional boundaries: juridical boundaries, which defined a region's territorial extent and thereby its resources; institutional boundaries that sustained regional differences; and cultural boundaries that defined the ethnic or technocratic principles on which a region could claim legitimate existence
