More Shopping OptionsIn March 2000 Vladimir Putin was elected President of the Russian Federation, the largest country in the world. In the space of just a few years Putin's radical reforms in the areas of domestic and foreign policy have made a major impact on Russian politics and society and we have witnessed a new orientation in Russia's external relations with the West. But is Putin an authoritarian or a democrat? Does his presidency signal a break with Russia's past or is he just another autocratic czar in modern clothing? This is a lively, comprehensive, and highly accessible account of contemporary Russian politics. There are fifteen chapters covering such key areas as: leadership and regime change, political parties and democratization, economy and society, regional politics, the war in Chechnya, and Russian foreign policy.
Cameron Ross is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Dundee.
Archie Brown * Regime Change From Yeltsin to Putin: Normality, Normalcy or Normalisation?--Richard Sakwa * Political Parties and Democratisation Russia's Law on Political Parties: Democracy By Decree?--Edwin Bacon * The Putin Paradigm and the Cowering of Russia's Communists--Luke March * Russia's Disempowered Electorate--Stephen White * Economy and Society * The Economic Legacy: What Putin Had to Deal With and the Way Forward--David Lane * The Russian Economy Under Vladimir Putin--William Tompson * Politics and the Mass Media Under Putin--Laura Belin * Regional Politics * Putin's Federal Reforms--Cameron Ross * Measuring and Explaining Variations in Russian Regional Democratisation--Christopher Marsh * Regional Elections and Democratisation in Russia--Valentin Mikhailov * Foreign Policy * Russian Foreign Policy Under Putin--Dmitry Polikanov and Graham Timmins * Russian Foreign Policy towards the European Union--Jackie Gower * Russia and Chechnya--Mike Bowker * Russian Foreign Policy: The CIS and the Baltic States---Ella Akerman and Graeme P. Herd
