The Ford Foundation's Moscow representative Mary McAuley explores the political reactions of elites and society in the Russian Federation in the years following the collapse of Communist party rule and the breakup of the USSR. Using first-hand research, McAuley provides a unique study of a society's response to the breakdown of an established political order.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: the politics of uncertainty; 1. The negotiating table; 2. Post-imperial politics: the national republics; 3. Patronage politics: Tatarstan and Sakha; 4. The conservative borderlands: Krasnodar krai; 5. Regional variations: Perm and Tomsk; 6. Consensus versus pluralist politics; 7. St Petersburg: a democratic alternative?; 8. The reassertion of executive power; 9. Facing the electorate.
