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Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform
by Michael McFaul, Nikolai Petrov, Andrei Ryabov
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2004-03)
ISBN: 0870032062
EAN: 9780870032066
Dewey Decimal #: 320.947
Binding/Media: Paperback - 386 pages
SKU: 00-56EH-FLNY
Condition: As New
Comments: Softcover has no issues. Pages are crisp and unmarked. Binding is tight with no spine creasing. Expedited shipping is available.
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Product Description
For hundreds of years, dictators have ruled Russia. Do they still? In the late 1980s, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev launched a series of political reforms that eventually allowed for competitive elections, the emergence of an independent press, the formation of political parties, and the sprouting of civil society. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, these proto-democratic institutions endured in an independent Russia. But did the processes unleashed by Gorbachev and continued under Russian President Boris Yeltsin lead eventually to liberal democracy in Russia? If not, what kind of political regime did take hold in post-Soviet Russia? And how has Vladimir Putin’s rise to power influenced the course of democratic consolidation or the lack thereof? Between Dictatorship and Democracy seeks to give a comprehensive answer to these fundamental questions about the nature of Russian politics.
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A close scrutiny of the democratic reforms
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-06-05
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Three expert scholars and associate professors combine their knowledge of modern-day Russian politics in Between Dictatorship And Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform, a close scrutiny of the democratic reforms that have been launched to change Russia's political workings in the past two decades. From a comprehensive evaluation of how Vladimir Putin's ascension has changed the course of the nation, to extensive charts and references packed with hard data, to diagrams and detailed walkthroughs of the transformations Russian government has undergone, Between Dictatorship and Democracy offers a crystal-clear picture of Russia's turbulent recent past, their changing present, and the possibilities of the future. Highly recommended for academic and political studies collections.
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