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| Author | : Graeme Gill |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2000-03-23 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0191528889 |
The decade and a half since Gorbachev came to power has been a tumultuous time for Russia. It has seen the expectations raised by perestroika dashed, the collapse of the Soviet superpower, and the emergence of a new Russian state claiming to base itself on democratic, market principles. It has seen a political system shattered by a president turning tanks against the parliament, and then that president configuring the new political structure to give himself overwhelming power. These upheavals took place against a backdrop of social dislocations as the Russian people were ravaged by the effects of economic shock therapy. This book explains how these momentous changes came about, and in particular why political elites were able to fashion the new political system largely independent of the wishes of the populace at large. It was this relationship between powerful elites and weak civil society forces which has led to Russian democracy under Yeltsin being still born.
| Author | : Graeme J. Gill |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2000-03-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199240418 |
The decade and a half since Gorbachev came to power has been a tumultuous time for Russia. It has seen the expectations raised by perestroika dashed, the collapse of the Soviet superpower, and the emergence of a new Russian state claiming to base itself on democratic, market principles. It has seen a political system shattered by a president turning tanks against the parliament, and then that president configuring the new political structure to give himself overwhelming power. Theseupheavals took place against a backdrop of social dislocations as the Russian people were ravaged by the effects of economic shock therapy.This book explains how these momentous changes came about, and in particular why political elites were able to fashion the new political system largely independent of the wishes of the populace at large. It was this relationship between powerful elites and weak civil society forces which has led to Russian democracy under Yeltsin being still born.
| Author | : Vladimir Gel'man |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1134399049 |
Investigates how elites have affected democratic development in Russia and how they influence the consolidation of the emerging political regime and post-communist patterns of behaviour and attitudes.
| Author | : Graeme J. Gill |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Democracy |
| ISBN | : |
This study of the failure of democracy in Russia after the collapse of the USSR traces the origins of that failure into the Soviet era, and shows how the political elite built a system based on maximising their own power, rather than the people's
| Author | : Harald Wydra |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2007-02-08 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1139462180 |
Before democracy becomes an institutionalised form of political authority, the rupture with authoritarian forms of power causes deep uncertainty about power and outcomes. This book connects the study of democratisation in eastern Europe and Russia to the emergence and crisis of communism. Wydra argues that the communist past is not simply a legacy but needs to be seen as a social organism in gestation, where critical events produce new expectations, memories and symbols that influence meanings of democracy. By examining a series of pivotal historical events, he shows that democratisation is not just a matter of institutional design, but rather a matter of consciousness and leadership under conditions of extreme and traumatic incivility. Rather than adopting the opposition between non-democratic and democratic, Wydra argues that the communist experience must be central to the study of the emergence and nature of democracy in (post-) communist countries.
| Author | : Sinikukka Saari |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2009-12-04 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1135239282 |
This book discusses how various international organisations, including the European Union, successfully promoted in Russia common European norms of human rights and democracy, with Russia co-operating fully in the process, but how, more recently, Russia has begun to challenge these norms, moving towards semi-authoritarianism.
| Author | : Anne White |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780415338745 |
This book examines a number of key questions about social change in contemporary Russia - issues such as how people survive when they are not paid for months on end, 'the New Poor', the falling birth rate, why so many Russian men die in middle age, whether regional identities are becoming stronger, and how people's sense of 'Russianness' has developed since the creation of the Russian Federation in 1992. It examines these issues by looking at actual experiences in three small Russian towns. It includes a great deal of original ethnographic research, and, by looking at real places overall, provides a good sense of how different aspects of social change are interlinked, and how they actually affect real people's lives.
| Author | : Vladimir M Tikhomirov |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2018-02-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1351786792 |
This title was first published in 2001. This study attempts to present a broad picture of political, economic and social developments in Russia at the start of the 21st century. It provides an overview of the legacy of the Yeltsin era and attempts to outline major limitations and policy choices that Putin is facing. The book contains an in-depth analysis of power stuggles in Russia, the background to Vladimir Putin's rise to presidency, the role of oligarchs and other pressure groups in Russia. There is also a focus on economic, social and financial developments in Russia, with an overview of Russian foreign, military and social policies, as well as looking at its level of development when compared with other countries.
| Author | : Graeme Gill |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2017-09-16 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1349928801 |
Despite the increasing globalization of many aspects of social, economic and political life, the state remains the fundamental element of contemporary governance. This fully revised and extended new edition provides a broad-ranging introduction to the origins, role and future of the modern state tracing out how significant shifts in state capacity came about in relation to developments in economic, political and ideological power.
| Author | : Leo McCann |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2004-07-31 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1134348363 |
Examining contemporary Russian socio-economic development, this book explores the degree to which Russian experiences can be incorporated into current social science theories.
