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Russia's Stillborn Democracy?

Author : Graeme J. Gill
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199240418
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Russia's Stillborn Democracy? written by Graeme J. Gill and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2000-03-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Russia's Stillborn Democracy?

Author : Graeme Gill
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191528889
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Russia's Stillborn Democracy? written by Graeme Gill and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-03-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Russia's Stillborn Democracy?

Author : Graeme J. Gill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Russia's Stillborn Democracy? written by Graeme J. Gill and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Eternal Russia

Author : Jonathan Steele
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674268371
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Eternal Russia written by Jonathan Steele and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former Moscow bureau chief of London's The Guardian presents an in-depth history of the former Soviet Union from 1987 to today. Jonathan Steele draws on interviews with Gorbachev, senior members of the Yeltsin inner circle, and many other sources to highlight the difficulty of establishing democracy and a free market in Russia.

The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy: Parties, Personalities, and Programs

Author :
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817992330
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy: Parties, Personalities, and Programs written by and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demise of communism in the Soviet Union could not have occurred without the activism of dissident, anticommunist leaders who created and nourished a climate in which ordinary Russians gained the courage to stand up to and defeat communist control. But with communism ousted, what new form of government and what new leaders will emerge in Russia, a society that has never known democracy? Michael McFaul, a research associate at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, and Sergei Markov, an assistant professor at Moscow State University, interviewed anti-communist leaders and collected the documents of anticommunist parties in the months preceding and immediately following the August 1991 attempted coup d'etat. To examine the range of the political spectrum in Russia, they also talked to procommunist leaders who emerged to oppose Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, nationalist and anti-Semitic leaders of movements such as Pamyat', labor unions, Christian movements, and organizations opposed to the division of the Soviet Union. What emerges is a kaleidoscope of leaders with distinct ideas on key issues facing Russia: how to reform the economy, what role the market should play in a new economic system, how to respond to growing demands from non-Russian republics for independence, what leaders can be trusted, what Russia's relations with the West should be, and what form of government would be best for Russia. Gathered here are essays offering historical background on the parties, selected interviews with prominent members of these groups, and important party documents. Whether democracy will flourish in Russia remains in question. The parties profiled here, actively involved in the debate over Russia's future, offer readers an insider's look into contemporary Russian politics.

Russia's Unfinished Revolution

Author : Michael McFaul
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801456967
Total Pages : 797 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Russia's Unfinished Revolution written by Michael McFaul and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, dictators ruled Russia. Tsars and Communist Party chiefs were in charge for so long some analysts claimed Russians had a cultural predisposition for authoritarian leaders. Yet, as a result of reforms initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, new political institutions have emerged that now require election of political leaders and rule by constitutional procedures. Michael McFaul traces Russia's tumultuous political history from Gorbachev's rise to power in 1985 through the 1999 resignation of Boris Yeltsin in favor of Vladimir Putin. McFaul divides his account of the post-Soviet country into three periods: the Gorbachev era (1985-1991), the First Russian Republic (1991-1993), and the Second Russian Republic (1993-present). The first two were, he believes, failures—failed institutional emergence or failed transitions to democracy. By contrast, new democratic institutions did emerge in the third era, though not the institutions of a liberal democracy. McFaul contends that any explanation for Russia's successes in shifting to democracy must also account for its failures. The Russian/Soviet case, he says, reveals the importance of forging social pacts; the efforts of Russian elites to form alliances failed, leading to two violent confrontations and a protracted transition from communism to democracy. McFaul spent a great deal of time in Moscow in the 1990s and witnessed firsthand many of the events he describes. This experience, combined with frequent visits since and unparalleled access to senior Russian policymakers and politicians, has resulted in an astonishingly well-informed account. Russia's Unfinished Revolution is a comprehensive history of Russia during this crucial period.

Russia's Transition to Democracy

Author : Geoff D. G. Murrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Russia's Transition to Democracy written by Geoff D. G. Murrell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise account of the collapse of the USSR and the turbulant first years of Yeltsin's Russia.

Between Dictatorship and Democracy

Author : Michael McFaul
Publisher : Carnegie Endowment
ISBN 13 : 0870032909
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Between Dictatorship and Democracy written by Michael McFaul and published by Carnegie Endowment. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Russian Politics

Author : Zoltan D. Barany
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521805124
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Russian Politics written by Zoltan D. Barany and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001, this book assesses five crucial political arenas during the Yeltsin era.

The New Russia

Author : Mikhail Gorbachev
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509503919
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The New Russia written by Mikhail Gorbachev and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin’s motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, Russia’s elder statesman draws on his wealth of knowledge and experience to reveal the development of Putin’s regime and the intentions behind it. He argues that Putin has significantly diminished the achievements of perestroika and is part of an over-centralized system that presents a precarious future for Russia. Faced with this, Gorbachev advocates a radical reform of politics and a new fostering of pluralism and social democracy. Gorbachev’s insightful analysis moves beyond internal politics to address wider problems in the region, including the Ukraine conflict, as well as the global challenges of poverty and climate change. Above all else, he insists that solutions are to be found by returning to the atmosphere of dialogue and cooperation which was so instrumental in ending the Cold War. This book represents the summation of Gorbachev’s thinking on the course that Russia has taken since 1991 and stands as a testament to one of the greatest and most influential statesmen of the twentieth century.

Democracy of Despots

Author : Donald Murray
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077356568X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Democracy of Despots written by Donald Murray and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-08-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Democracy of Despots is a history of Soviet and Russian experiments with democratic institutions from 1988 to 1995. Based on eye-witness accounts and in-depth interviews with most of the political leaders in this drama, it tells the story of the men and women who began an experiment in euphoria only to find themselves at war with one another five years later. Arguing that Gorbachev and Yeltsin used the democratic institutions they created to crush political opponents and increase their own personal power, Murray concludes that the rise of Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the war in Chechnya are not aberrations on Russia's road to democracy but the logical extension and consequence of Gorbachev's and Yeltsin's despotism.

Boris Yeltsin and Russia’s Democratic Transformation

Author : Herbert J. Ellison
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Boris Yeltsin and Russia’s Democratic Transformation by : Herbert J. Ellison

Download or read book Boris Yeltsin and Russia’s Democratic Transformation written by Herbert J. Ellison and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about Yeltsin, but rarely has it been as balanced and insightful as this book. It is a much-needed, well-deserved corrective to conventional wisdom that overlooks or sells short Yeltsin's basically positive international stage. - Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution and former U.S. deputy secretary of state

Russian Politics and Society

Author : Catherine J. Danks
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Russian Politics and Society written by Catherine J. Danks and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering Russia's attempted move towards democracy, this text includes an evaluation of the collapse of the USSR, Gorbachev's reconstruction adn the creation of the Russian state. It examines the collapse of Soviet power through the Yeltsin years, assesses Yeltsin's legacy and Putin's first few months in office, and provides coverage of the 1999 State Duma Elections and the March 2000 election of President Putin.

Post-Soviet Russia

Author : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231106078
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis Post-Soviet Russia by : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev

Download or read book Post-Soviet Russia written by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the drastic liberalization of prices and "shock therapy" to the privatization of state owned property and Yeltsin's resignation and replacement by Vladimir Putin, this is a saga of good intentions, philosophical warfare, and catastrophic miscalculations."--BOOK JACKET.

The Firebird

Author : Andrei Kozyrev
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822966517
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book The Firebird written by Andrei Kozyrev and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, he was present when tanks moved in to seize the Russian White House, where Boris Yeltsin famously stood on a tank to address the crowd assembled. He then departed to Paris to muster international support and, if needed, to form a Russian government-in-exile. He participated in the negotiations at Brezhnev’s former hunting lodge in Belazheva, Belarus where the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus agreed to secede from the Soviet Union and form a Commonwealth of Independent States. Kozyrev’s pro-Western orientation made him an increasingly unpopular figure in Russia as Russia’s spiraling economy and the emergence of ultra-wealthy oligarchs soured ordinary Russians on Western ideas of democracy and market capitalism. The Firebird takes the reader into the corridors of power to provide a startling eyewitness account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the struggle to create a democratic Russia in its place, and how the promise of a better future led to the tragic outcome that changed our world forever.

The Struggle for Russia

Author : Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415092920
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Russia written by Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Ruslan Khasbulatov? Since the attempted coup in Russia in August 1991, Ruslan Khasbulatov has featured prominently and controversially in the development of the post-Soviet Russia. And yet relatively little is known about his background, personal beliefs and political philosophy. This book, part analytical, part autobiographical, provides unique insight into Khasbulatov's political development and outlook. Khasbulatov became acting Speaker of the Russian Parliament in July 1991 and helped defend the Russian White House during the coup attempt of that August. Confirmed in the post of Speaker in October 1991, he has since consolidated his influence in the parliament and become one of the country's most controversial politicians. News reports portray Khasbulatov as engaged in a power struggle with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. They indicate that the Russian parliament has turned into a bastion of opposition to Yeltsin and his proposed free-market reforms. As leader of the parliament, Khasbulatov is seen as representing the interests of the old-guard communist managers. Scarcely a day passes without negative stories about him appearing in the press. In The Struggle for Russia, Khasbulatov describes his personal involvement in the dramatic events of the last three years. He presents his views on the evolution of Russian politics before the attempted coup, putting forward a distinctive approach to the problems of Russian history, politics and culture. He offers a vivid first-hand account of the resistance to the coup and describes working with Yeltsin to draft the appeal "To the Citizens of Russia" which declared the coup an illegal act. The book concludes with Khasbulatov's views on Russian politics in the post-communist era, focusing on the problem of power in the democratic transition.

Elites and Democratic Development in Russia

Author : Vladimir Gel'man
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134399030
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Elites and Democratic Development in Russia written by Vladimir Gel'man and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation from Communist rule towards democratic development in Russia cannot be fully understood without taking the elites into full consideration. Elites and Democratic Development in Russia examines how elites support and challenge democracy and why they are crucial to Russian democracy in particular. In this innovative volume, twelve respected scholars investigate how elites have affected the transition from Communist rule towards democratic development in Russia. They discuss how the elites' degree of integration on national and regional levels may constitute the main condition for the consolidation of the emerging political regime and interpret the complex post-communist elite patterns of behaviour and attitudes into a theoretical framework of elitist democracy. This book will appeal to those interested in democratization, elites, post-Soviet Russia and post-communist studies.