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Putin [electronic resource] : Russia's choice / Richard Sakwa.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xi, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780203931936 (electronic bk.)
  • 0203931939 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 947.086092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • DK510.763 .S247 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The path to power -- The unlikely making of a leader -- Operation successor -- Ideas and choices -- Who is Mister Putin? -- Normality, normalcy and normalisation -- Russia at the turn of the millennium -- Planning for the future -- The 'state of the nation' speeches -- Putin's path -- Building the Putin bloc -- Putin and the people -- Leadership and style -- National democracy and Russia's 'third way' -- Parties, elections and the succession -- Development of the party system -- Elections and electoral legislation -- Parliamentary realignment -- Putin, parties and government -- The Putin succession -- Regime, state and society -- State and regime -- The 'liquidation of the oligarchs as a class' -- Freedom of speech and the media -- Judicial reform and human rights -- Bureaucracy, incorporation and opposition -- Bureaucracy and corruption -- Civil society and para-constitutional representation -- Regime and opposition -- Putin's 'new federalism' -- Segmented regionalism -- Features of the 'new federalism' -- State reconstitution and federalism -- Reforging the nation -- National images and state symbols -- Social aspects of national identity -- Chechnya : tombstone or crucible of Russian power? -- Russian capitalism -- Entering the market -- Models of capitalism : state corporatism? -- State, economy and society -- Putin's new realism in foreign policy -- Towards a new realism -- Features of the new realism -- The new realism in practice -- Conclusion : the power of contradiction -- Public politics -- Beyond transition -- The power of contradiction -- Appendix : Russia at the turn of the millennium.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [370]-375) and index.

The path to power -- The unlikely making of a leader -- Operation successor -- Ideas and choices -- Who is Mister Putin? -- Normality, normalcy and normalisation -- Russia at the turn of the millennium -- Planning for the future -- The 'state of the nation' speeches -- Putin's path -- Building the Putin bloc -- Putin and the people -- Leadership and style -- National democracy and Russia's 'third way' -- Parties, elections and the succession -- Development of the party system -- Elections and electoral legislation -- Parliamentary realignment -- Putin, parties and government -- The Putin succession -- Regime, state and society -- State and regime -- The 'liquidation of the oligarchs as a class' -- Freedom of speech and the media -- Judicial reform and human rights -- Bureaucracy, incorporation and opposition -- Bureaucracy and corruption -- Civil society and para-constitutional representation -- Regime and opposition -- Putin's 'new federalism' -- Segmented regionalism -- Features of the 'new federalism' -- State reconstitution and federalism -- Reforging the nation -- National images and state symbols -- Social aspects of national identity -- Chechnya : tombstone or crucible of Russian power? -- Russian capitalism -- Entering the market -- Models of capitalism : state corporatism? -- State, economy and society -- Putin's new realism in foreign policy -- Towards a new realism -- Features of the new realism -- The new realism in practice -- Conclusion : the power of contradiction -- Public politics -- Beyond transition -- The power of contradiction -- Appendix : Russia at the turn of the millennium.

Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007.

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