Politics and the ruling group in Putin's Russia [electronic resource] / edited by Stephen White.
Russian politics is post-communist, but there is little consensus about the nature of the political system that has emerged during the Putin presidency. The chapters of this international collection focus on the issues of interpretation that arise from the political system as a whole, but also on in...
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
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| Series: | Studies in central and eastern Europe.
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Table of Contents:
- What kind of political regime does Russia have? / Hans-Henning Schröder
- The presidentialization of a semi-presidential regime : the case of Russia / Oleg Zaznaev
- The Russian Federal Security Service under President Putin / Eberhard Schneider
- The inherent instability of the ruling elite / Hillel Ticktin
- Interest groups and economic reform in contemporary Russia : before and after Yukos / Andrei Yakovlev
- The "oligarchs" in Russian mass consciousness / Alexander Chepurenko
- Are Russia's oligarchs scapegoats? : Some empirical evidence from the Russian press / Jakob Fruchtmann
- Unintentional humour in Oligarkh and Antikiller, or how new are the "new Russians?" / Andrei Rogachevsky.