Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Historical Patterns of Russian Political Development; 2 Soviet Legacies for Post-Soviet Russia; 3 The 1990s in Russia: A New Time of Troubles?; 4 Russia's "Neopatrimonial" Political System, 1992-2004; 5 The Russian 1990s in Comparative Perspective; 6 What Future for Russia?: Liberal Economics and Illiberal Geography; Conclusions; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary
How important is the state to Russia's prospects, even as Russia tries to work out the contours of a stable and productive market-based economic system? What kind of political order corresponds to the challenges that Russia faces? This book argues that geography is important to these questions
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index
