• Acknowledment Foreword by Viatcheslav Morozov Introduction
• Chapter 1. Regionalism as a Russian Identity-Building Project
• Chapter 2. The Post-Soviet as Postmodern? Theorizing Identitary Discourses in Russia
• Chapter 3. The Language of Civilizations in Post-Soviet Russia
• Chapter 4. A "Russian Civilization": Constructing Unity across Fragmentation
• Chapter 5. Cultural Regionalism as a Non-Western Model of Global Order
• Chapter 6. Toward a "Eurasian Union"? Economic Regionalism and Reconstitution of Russian Identity
• Chapter 7. Eurasian Regionalism and the European Union: New Uses for the Old Other Conclusion References.
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This study examines Russian discourses of regionalism as a source of identity construction practices for the country's political and intellectual establishment. The overall purpose of the analysis (in its evolutionary phase known to the scholarly community by its subtitle) is to demonstrate that, contrary to some assumptions, the transition trajectory of post-Soviet Russia has not been towards a liberal democratic nation state that intended to emulate Western political and normative standards. Instead, its foreign policy discourses have been constructing Russia as a supranational community which transcends Russia's current legally established borders. The study undertakes a systematic survey of Russian official and semi-official (establishment-affiliated think tanks) discourse for a period of seven years between 2007 and 2013. This exercise demonstrates how Russia is being constructed as a supranational entity through its discourses of cultural and economic regionalism. These discourses associate closely with the political project of Eurasian economic integration and the "Russian world" and "Russian civilization" doctrines. Both ideologies, the geoeconomic and culturalist, have gained prominence in the post-Crimean environment. The analysis tracks down how these identitary concepts crystallized in Russia's foreign policies discourses beginning from Putin's second term in power.
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• Acknowledgements Preface Introduction How long will Putin rule? Succession Struggles in the USSR and Russia Institutional Power in Russia Scenarios for Putin's Exit Domestic and Foreign Policy Options Facing Russia's New Leader Conclusion Addendum Endnotes About The Author
• Appendix I (Sorted by country)
• Appendix I (Sorted by cause of death)
• Appendix II Index.
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Now in apparent robust health, Russian President Vladimir Putin (age 66) could remain in power for another decade or even longer. But he will not keep power forever. From declining health to forced retirement to assassination, a multitude of factors could force Putin to leave the political scene and bring new leadership to Moscow. If so, who might come to power, and what policy changes can be expected during, and after, what may well be a protracted power struggle? Post Putin is a prescient examination of the variables that could contribute to Putin's departure from political power, and the competing forces with which any potential successor will need to contend.
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• Preface to the English Translation Acknowledgments
• 1. The Political System of Putin's Russia and Its Significance for World Affairs
• 2. Russia Today: The History of How and Why It Came to Be
• 3. Authoritarianism on the Periphery: Understanding Russia's Political System and How It Works
• 4. The Future of Autocracy in Russia: What Do We Have to Tolerate (and for How Long)?
• 5. In Lieu of a Conclusion Afterword: 2018 and the Imperative for Change Notes Index.
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A quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia once again looms large over world affairs, from Ukraine to Syria to the 2016 U.S. election. Yet how power works in present-day Russia--how Vladimir Putin came to power and maintains his rule--remains opaque and often misunderstood. In The Putin System, Russian economist and opposition leader Grigory Yavlinsky explains his country's politics from a unique perspective, voicing a Russian liberal critique of the post-Soviet system that is vital for the West to hear. Combining the firsthand experience of a practicing politician with academic expertise, Yavlinsky gives unparalleled insights into the sources of Putin's power and what might be next. He argues that Russia's dysfunction is neither the outcome of one man's iron-fisted rule nor a deviation from the supposedly natural development of Western-style political institutions. Instead, Russia's peripheral position in the global economy has fundamentally shaped the regime's domestic and foreign policy, nourishing authoritarianism while undermining its opponents. The quasi-market reforms of the 1990s, the bureaucracy's self-perpetuating grip on power, and the Russian elite's frustration with its secondary status have all combined to enable personalized authoritarian rule and corruption. Ultimately, Putin is as much a product of the system as its creator. In a time of sensationalism and fear, The Putin System is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how power is wielded in Russia.
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• Foreword by Serhii Plokhy
• Introduction : Debating Russian Nationalism and Empire
• Acknowledgements
• The Vision of Eurasia
• Becoming Eurasian : the Intellectual Odyssey of Georgii Vladimirovich Vernadsky
• From the other Shore : reflections of Russian Émigré Thinkers on Soviet Nationality Policies, 1920s-1930s
• Defining the "True" Nationalism : Russian Ethnic Nationalists versus Eurasianists
• "Middle Continent" or "Island Russia" : Eurasianist Legacy and Vadim Tsymbursky's Revisionist Geopolitics
• Neo-Ottomanism versus Neo-Eurasianism? : Nationalism and Symbolic Geography in Postimperial Turkey and Russia
• Russia and Ukraine : Histoire Croisée
• "This is a Strife of Slavs Among Themselves" : Understanding Russian-Ukrainian Relations as a Conflict of Contested Identities
• Ukraine and Russia : Entangled Histories, Contested Identities, and a War of Narratives
• Symbolic Geographies of Empire : the Ukraine Factor in Russia-Europe Relations.

Igor Torbakov explores the nexus between various forms of Russian political imagination and the apparently cyclic process of decline and fall of Russias imperial polity over the last hundred years. While Russias historical process is by no means unique, two features of its historical development stand out. First, the countrys history is characterized by dramatic political discontinuity. In the past century, Russia changed its historical skin three times: following the disintegration of the Tsarist Empire accompanied by violent civil war, it was reconstituted as the communist USSR, whose breakup a quarter century ago led to the emergence of the present-day Russian Federation. Each of the dramatic transformations in the 20th century powerfully affected the notion of what Russia is and what it means to be Russian. Second, alongside Russias political instability, there is, paradoxically, a striking picture of geopolitical stability and of remarkable longevity as an imperial entity. At least since the beginning of the 18th century, Russia has been a permanent geopolitical fixture on Europes north-eastern margins with its persistent pretense to the status of a great power. Against this backdrop, the books three sections investigate (a) the emergence and development of Eurasianism as a form of (post-)imperial ideology, (b) the crucial role Ukraine has historically played for the Russians self-understanding, and (c) the contemporary Russian elites exercises in historical legitimation.
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• Change and continuity in Russian politics
• The Soviet system
• Perestroika and the fall of the USSR
• Yeltsin and the politics of crisis
• Putinism, reform and retrenchment
• Presidency and parliaments
• Russian federalism
• Political parties and opposition
• Elections and voters
• The new Russian political economy
• Russia and the world
• What kind of polity is Russia?

"In this innovative new book, Neil Robinson places contemporary Russian politics in historical perspective to argue that Putin's regime has not overcome the problems that underpinned the momentous changes in twentieth-century Russian history when Russia veered from Tsarism to Soviet rule to post-communist chaos"-- Provided by publisher.

• Chapter 1: The Russian state as network manager: a theoretical framework-- Mikkel Berg-Nordlie, Jorn Holm-Hansen and Sabine Kropp.-
• Chapter 2: Adjusting the scope of interaction between state and civil society: HIV prevention among drug users-- Aadne Aasland and Anastasia Y. Meylakhs.-
• Chapter 3: Environmental impact assessment: between facilitating public contribution and arbitrary involvement of NGOs-- Johannes Schuhmann and Sabine Kropp.-
• Chapter 4: Climate change adaptation: governance in a fragmented and unsettled policy area-- Jorn Holm-Hansen and Mikkel Berg-Nordlie.-
• Chapter 5: Child Welfare Policies in Russia- Civil Society Contributions without Return?-- Jorn Holm-Hansen.-
• Chapter 6: Imitation and enforced cooperation: state and civil society in ethnic conflict management-- Sabine Kropp and Johannes Schuhmann.-
• Chapter 7: Substitution in Sapmi. Meta-governance and Conflicts over Representation in Regional Indigenous Governance-- Mikkel Berg-Nordlie.-
• Chapter 8: Patterns of governance in Russia: feedback of empirical findings into governance theory-- Sabine Kropp and Aadne Aasland.
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This book investigates the emergence and working of governance networks in contemporary Russia. Drawing on a case study design, it provides a novel comparison of seven policy issues each investigated across various Russian regions or over time. Its authors reveal that governance networks are a ubiquitous phenomenon emerging in different regime types. It sheds light on how and why state authorities interact with non-state actors and unravels various types, functions and flavours of governance networks in Russia. By precisely tracing how state authorities govern networks under the terms of a hybrid regime, special emphasis is placed on the analysis of `meta-governance' tools. Moreover, the book allows for theorising on governance in an increasingly authoritarian regime and thus can also be read as a unique contribution to research on governance theory in general. Creating a clear analytical framework it reflects the richness of governance theory and offers fresh perspectives on the nature of hybrid and `new' authoritarian regimes. This original work will appeal to students and scholars of Russian Studies, public policy, political science, sociology, and public administration.
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• Chapter One: Russian Government and Society Chapter Two: Weaving the Fabric of the Russian Transition Experience Chapter Three: The Legacy and Russia's Region to Center Relationships Chapter Four: The Emergence of Authoritarian Democracy Chapter Five: The Federal Districting System and Duma Election Outcomes: The Path to the Party of Power Chapter Six: Asymmetric Patterns and Party List Outcomes: Selected Variables Chapter Seven: Yeltsin's Legacy and Putin's Path to Centralized Federalism Chapter Eight: The Future of Janus Russia and the Continuing Structural Legacy.
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Research and analysis of the post-Soviet Russian experience of political, economic and social change have generally focused attention on the complications and influences of the Soviet legacy on the transition process with most early main stream studies emphasizing the difficulties of the adoption of the institutions of democracy and a free market economy to the centralized command and control legacy structures carried over from that adjacent system to the more recent analyses that have attempted to explain why the Putinist hybrid authoritarian democracy emerged to take control of the Russian state. The complex nature of the Russian experience of political, social and economic change had yet to be explained as a long-term legacy analysis until now with the linkages presented in this study of the legacies and structures that have defied attempts at reform by the Bolsheviks, the Soviets and the modern Republicans. The political geography of Russia represents a districting system that defines the people and places and represents an influential legacy structure that has had a long reach from the Russia of Imperialism to the Russia of Putinism and the twenty first century. A clearer understanding of the influences the Imperial legacy brings to the Russian transformation enables the student of post-Soviet Russian transition an opportunity to contextualize the strong linkages of historical governance structures with the one hundred years of Bolshevik and Soviet system capture and the struggles of transformation faced by the government and people of Russia today.
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As a nuclear power, UN Security Council member, emerging Arctic hegemon and the largest state in the world, Russia - and its stability - is of extreme importance in global politics. In the most comprehensive long-term study to date, Derek Hutcheson argues that Russia's legislature, the Federal Assembly, forms an integral part of the country's political system and machinery of governance. Having previously formed a counterweight to presidential power under Boris Yeltsin, the legislative agenda has become more centralised under Vladimir Putin. Successive changes to the electoral and party systems have resulted in the dominance of a four-party 'cartel', with the pro-presidential United Russia party at its centre. A perception that Russian elections are predictable, controlled and pointless to examine has grown, but Hutcheson reminds us that real voters cast real ballots. This book tells the story of how the electoral system has evolved, how campaign strategies have developed and how voting behaviour has changed. Hutcheson has utilised a combination of official data and new primary material to set 25 years of Russian parliamentary elections into context. Putting forward an in-depth analysis of post-Soviet politics, he looks forward to the next stage in Russia's political evolution just as he looked back.
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• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction: Why Not Authoritarian Modernization in Russia? Vladimir Gel'man
• Chapter 2. Fathers versus Sons: Generation Changes and the Ideational Agenda of Reforms in Late Twentieth-Century Russia Vladimir Gel'man, Dmitry Travin
• Chapter 3. The Dilemma of Perception on Russian Strong State and Demand for Modernization Markku Kangaspuro
• Chapter 4. Framing Modernization in Russian Newspapers: Words, Not Deeds Jukka Pietilainen
• Chapter 5. Authoritarianism and Institutional Decay in Russia: Disruption of Property Rights and the Rule of Law Andrey Zaostrovtsev
• Chapter 6. Russian People's Front and Hybrid Governance Dilemma Jussi Lassila
• Chapter 7. Social Network Sites and Political Governance in Russia Markku Lonkila
• Chapter 8. Russia's Post-Neoliberal Development Strategy and High-Technology Considerations Anna Lowry
• Chapter 9. How does the Government Implement Unpopular Reforms? Evidence from Education Policy in Russia Andrey Starodubtsev
• Chapter 10. Choosing between Bureaucracy and the Reformers: The Russian Pension Reform of 2001 as a Compromise Squared Anna A. Dekalchuk
• Chapter 11. Labour Reform in Putin's Russia: Could Modernization Be Democratic? Ivan S. Grigoriev.
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Post-Communist Russia is an instance of the phenomenon of authoritarian modernization project, which is perceived as a set of policies intended to achieve a high level of economic development, while political freedoms remain beyond the current modernization agenda or are postponed to a distant future. Why did Russia (unlike many countries of post-Communist Europe) pursue authoritarian modernization after the Soviet collapse? What is the ideational agenda behind this project and why does it dominate Russia's post-Communist political landscape? What are the mechanisms of political governance, which maintain this project and how have they adopted and absorbed various democratic institutions and practices? Why has this project brought such diverse results in various policy arenas, and why have the consequences of certain policies become so controversial? Why, despite so many controversies, shortcomings and flaws, has this project remained attractive in the eyes of a large proportion of the Russian elite and ordinary citizens? This volume intended to place some of these questions on the research agenda and propose several answers, encouraging further discussions about the logic and mechanisms of the authoritarian modernization project in post-Communist Russia and its effects on Russia's politics, economy, and society.
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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. A theory of dominant party formation--
• 3. False starts: the failure of pro-Presidential parties under Yeltsin--
• 4. The emergence of a dominant party in Russia--
• 5. United Russia as the dominant party--
• 6. United Russia and Russia's governors--
• 7. Economic elites and dominant party affiliation--
• 8. Dominant party emergence around the world--
• 9. Conclusion.
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In many autocracies, regime leaders share power with a ruling party, which can help generate popular support and reduce conflict among key elites. Such ruling parties are often called dominant parties. In other regimes, leaders prefer to rule solely through some combination of charisma, patronage, and coercion, rather than sharing power with a dominant party. This book explains why dominant parties emerge in some nondemocratic regimes, but not in others. It offers a novel theory of dominant party emergence that centers on the balance of power between rulers and other elites. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Russia, original data on Russian political elites, and cross-national statistical analysis, the book's findings shed new light on how modern autocracies work and why they break down. The book also provides new insights about the foundations of Vladimir Putin's regime and challenges several myths about the personalization of power under Putin.
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• List of tables
• List of figures
• List of boxes
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The problem
• The approach
• Book structure
• Legislative and institutional backgrounds of public policy for patriotic education
• A brief history of public policy on patriotic education in the USSR and Russia
• Governmental programming for patriotic education on the national level
• Regional and local programming for patriotic education
• Conclusion
• The model of patriotic education in schools : USSR to Russia
• The rise and fall of Soviet patriotic education : 1930s-1980s
• The decline of patriotic education : 1980s-1990s
• The basics of succession
• Conclusion
• Historic elements and structures in contemporary patriotic education
• The substitution of the conceptual basis
• Memorialization
• Youth organization(s)
• Patriotic content of school subjects
• Pedagogical tools
• Conclusion
• Novel elements of patriotic education in contemporary Russia
• New targets
• New connotations
• New agents
• Conclusion
• Conclusions : social roots of the making of citizens
• Bibliography.

This book is a comprehensive study of the social roots of citizen raising in contemporary Russia. It traces the development of governmental patriotic programs in recent decades, discusses how the Soviet past and political traditions influence todays system of patriotism formation, and presents numerous examples illustrating real-life processes in current patriotic education. While the topics of patriotism and patriotic education are highly politicised, this study approaches them from a sociological perspective. It identifies the basic model of patriotic education as a fairly stable structure born of the values and attitudes of different agents: teachers, school administrators, and civil servants. Patriotic education in Russia is shown as a particular example of how a political idea can lead to the formation of social structures, and how, in time, those social structures can lead to the restoration of the original political idea.
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• Introduction: strategy in a time of crisis
• 1. Setting a strategic agenda
• 2. The problems of power in Russia
• 3. Making Russia work
• 4. Defending Russia Conclusion: mobilising power in Russia Further reading
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The book explores the Russian leadership's strategic agenda and illuminates the range of problems it faces in implementing it. Given these difficulties and the Russian leadership's concerns about an unstable and increasingly competitive world, the Russian official and expert community often use the term 'mobilisation' to describe the measures that Moscow is increasingly resorting to in order to implement its agenda. The book explores what this means, and concludes that many of the terms used in the Western debate about Russia both misdiagnose the nature of the challenge and misrepresent the situation in Russia. At a time when many of the books about Russia are focused specifically on the war in Ukraine and the deterioration in relations between the Euro-Atlantic community and Russia, or are biographies of Vladimir Putin, it offers a new and unique lens through which to understand how Russia works and how Russian domestic and foreign politics are intimately linked. -- .
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In The Regional Roots of Russia's Political Regime, William M. Reisinger and Bryon J. Moraski examine Russian politics at the subnational level in order to discover why democracy failed to take root and how Putin's authoritarian regime materialized. Since the national regime needed dominant victories in federal legislative and presidential elections, elections were critical to the resurgence of Russian authoritarianism. At the same time, victories without a traditional nationwide political party required that regional politicians help deliver votes. Putin employed a variety of resources to encourage the collaboration of regional leaders during federal elections and to sanction those who would or could not deliver these votes. By analyzing successive federal elections, Reisinger and Moraski show that regions that led the way in delivering votes in Putin's favor were those that had been both more independent and more authoritarian during the Yeltsin era. These authoritarian enclaves under Yeltsin became models of behavior in the Putin regime, which prized deferential election results. Other regions were quick to follow this lead, functioning during Putin's ascendancy as "swing states." Still, Russia's regimes continued to exhibit regime diversity, with democratic enclaves resisting the push to become cogs in the Kremlin's electoral authoritarian wheel. While motivated by scholarly questions about authoritarianism, democracy, and the influence of subnational forces on national regime trajectories, Reisinger and Moraski also consider policy-relevant questions.
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• Preface Acknowledgments About the Author
• Chapter 1: Executive Power in Russian Politics What Does Executive Leadership Mean in the Russian Context? Authoritarian Modernizers: The Prototype Characteristics of Authoritarian Modernizers What Can We Learn from Past "Executives"? Earlier Authoritarian Modernizers The Brezhnev Era: The Long Calm before the Storm The Uncertain Interregnum: Andropov and Chernenko
• Chapter 2: The Gorbachev Presidency The Starting Point: What Gorbachev Intended Gorbachev's Rise to Power From General Secretary to President The Reform Agenda: Politics and Policy Glasnost The Economy: Perestroika Judicial Reform Foreign Policy Political Reform: Democratization Democratization of the Communist Party The Gorbachev Presidency The Presidency of the Russian Federation The Battle of the Presidents Gorbachev as an Authoritarian Modernizer
• Chapter 3: The Yeltsin Presidency, 1991-1993 Yeltsin's Path to Moscow From Outcast to President The President Becomes a President A Real President Gets a Real Nation Personal Rivalries Economic Reforms as a Political Issue Yeltsin's Economic Reforms: Phase I (1991-1993) The Reform of the Party-State National Identity and the Union Treaty Judicial Reform The President and the Legislature Foreign Policy Yeltsin as an Authoritarian Modernizer: A Preliminary Assessment
• Chapter 4: Yeltsin and Russia Reborn The Presidency and the Legislature Judicial Reform The 1993 Duma Elections The 1995 Duma Elections The 1996 Presidential Election The Second Term: From Victory to Resignation Yeltsin's Economic Reforms: Phase II (1994-1999) Foreign Policy The First Chechen War The December 1999 Duma Elections Yeltsin's Surprise Resignation Yeltsin as an Authoritarian Modernizer: A Final Assessment
• Chapter 5: Putin I, 2000-2008 The 2000 Presidential Election Vladimir Putin: From Spy Novels to the Kremlin The Putin Formula The Putin Presidency Emerges from Yeltsin's Shadow Outside the Garden Ring: "Managing" the New Democracy The Presidency and the Legislature: The 2003 Duma Elections Judicial Reform The 2004 Presidential Election The Rules and the Game Change The Run-Up to the 2008 Presidential Election The 2007 Duma Elections Putin's Economic Reforms Foreign Policy The Second Chechen War The 2008 Presidential Election Putin as an Authoritarian Modernizer
• Chapter 6: The "Tandem" Dmitry Medvedev: Putin's Friend from Leningrad Governing the Nation in Tandem Medvedev and Putin in Tandem Factional Realities Medvedev and Economic Reform Medvedev and Political Modernization Judicial Reform Foreign Policy The Russian-Georgian War Medvedev and the Legislature: The 2011 Duma Elections The Duma Election and Voting Fraud The 2012 Presidential Election Election Results Medvedev as an Authoritarian Modernizer
• Chapter 7: Putin II,
• 2012- The "New" Cabinet Putin II: Old and New Realities Maintaining the Balance within the Garden Ring Controlling the Opposition The Economy: Prosperity and Modernity Foreign Policy Crimea and Ukraine Russian Foreign Policy and the World The Three Arenas of Russian Politics Inside the Garden Ring: Factional Politics in Putin II A Note on the Siloviki Outside the Garden Ring: Politics in the Rest of the Russian Federation The Authoritarian Modernizer Revisited The Legal System and the Courts Connecting Those Inside and Outside the Garden Ring Political Parties Civil Society Control of the Media The Leadership Cult as a Connection Putin as an Authoritarian Modernizer
• Chapter 8: The Future(s) of Russian Politics The Future of the Russian Presidency(ies) What Will Drive Change? Changes in the Nature of Factional Politics Changes in the Nature of Electoral Politics at the National, Regional, and Local Levels Politics Moves to the Street: A Color Revolution or Moscow Spring What Is a Color Revolution? A Russian Color Revolution? Index.
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Author Donald Kelley highlights the presidency as a work in progress shaped by the demands of creating political, economic, and social stability while simultaneously institutionalizing democratic rule. By setting the presidency within a longer historical context, Kelley traces the evolution of Russian politics from the late Soviet Union to the Russian Federation, showing how the future development of the presidency is dependent on other features of the political system.
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• Part I: Introduction
• Chapter 1: The View from Middle-Range Part II: Metatheory
• Chapter 2: The Logic of Inquiry in Sovietology: Soviet Area Studies and the Social Sciences
• Chapter 3: Silver Anniversary of the Publication of Communist Studies and the Social Sciences
• Chapter 4: The Logic of Inquiry in Post-Sovietology: Russian Studies and the Social Sciences Part III: Middle-Range Theories
• Chapter 5: Co-optation as a Mechanism of Adaptation to Change
• Chapter 6: Motivation, Methodology and Communist Ideology
• Chapter 7: The Western Connection: Technical Rationality and Soviet Politics
• Chapter 8: Political Culture in Post-Soviet Russia: Recent Empirical Investigations
• Chapter 9: Does the Public Matter for Democratization in Russia?
• Chapter 10: Congruence Theory Applied: Democratization in Russia Part IV: Conclusion
• Chapter 11: Conclusion: Thinking Theoretically about Russian & Soviet Politics: Carnivals, Cockfights, and Epistemic Communities.
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This book brings together several of the author's empirical studies that demonstrate the strength and utility of sociologist Robert Merton's classic middle-range theory for understanding aspects of both Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politics. Some of those studies demonstrate that testing middle-range social science theory could take place even in the Soviet era when there were significant limitations of access to empirical data, and meaningful field research in the USSR was all but impossible. In the introductory chapter, the author explains the need for and advantages of studying Russian and Soviet politics from the perspective of middle-range social science theory. Then follow three chapters analyzing methodological issues in Soviet/post-Soviet studies. The author presents his six empirical studies employing middle-range social science theories to explore in Russia/USSR dimensions of organizations, ideology and decisionmaking, technology transfer and cultural diffusion, political culture, public opinion and democratization, and congruence of authority patterns in state-society relations. The book concludes with a chapter arguing the advantages of thinking theoretically about Russian and Soviet politics with the establishment of a new epistemic community organized around studies employing middle-range theory. This book presents examples of solutions to long-standing debates between area studies and the academic disciplines and between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to knowledge in the social sciences. In contrast to the tradition of Carnivals and Cockfights in Russian/Soviet area studies since the mid-20th Century, the book offers a new way of approaching the study of Russian politics for the 21st Century.
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• Einleitung / Yana Milev
• Europa itn Ringen um dte Macht in der Mitte / Herfried Münkler
• Digitaler Kolonialismus / Peter Sloterdijk
• Regime Change und verdeckte Kriegsführung in der Ukraine / Daniele Ganser
• Ist ein gesamt-europäisches Haus überhaupt möglich? / Ruslan Grinberg, Boris Shmelev
• Biographien.

• Einleitung / Yana Milev
• Europa im Ringen um die Macht in der Mitte / Herfried Münkler
• Digitaler Kolonialismus / Peter Sloterdijk
• Regime Change und verdeckte Kriegsführung in der Ukraine / Daniele Ganser
• Ist ein gesamt-europäisches Haus überhaupt möglich? / Ruslan Grinberg, Boris Shmelev.

In 2012, on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration for a controversial third term as president, mass protests ended in violent clashes between demonstrators and the police. `They ruined my big day, now I'm going to ruin their lives, ' Putin was alleged to have said. Now Boris Nemtsov is dead, other key opposition leaders are either in prison or under house arrest and the Kremlin is using the situation in Ukraine to further its domestic aims, encouraging the rise of violent pro-Putin groups and labelling protesters `national traitors'. Journalist and long-time Moscow resident Marc Bennetts examines how Putin and his shadowy advisers crushed Russia's brave new protest movement. Featuring rare interviews with everyone from Nemtsov and other protest leaders to Kremlin insiders, Bennetts provides an unprecedented insight into the realities of politics on the ground. The result is a brilliant portrayal of the battle for Russia's soul - one which continues to this day.
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• Predtechi i zarozhdenie menʹshevizma / B. Sapir
• Iz vospominaniĭ revoli͡ut͡sionera 1905-1923 gg. / E.A. Ananʹin
• Menʹsheviki v 1917 godu / I͡U. Denike
• Menʹsheviki v pervye dni revoli͡ut͡sii / B. Nikolaevskiĭ
• Sostoi͡anie partiĭnoĭ organizat͡sii k momentu Okti͡abrʹskogo perevorota / L. Lande
• Menʹsheviki v dni Okti͡abrʹskogo perevorota / B. Nikolaevskiĭ
• Materialy o razvitii programm ėkonomicheskoĭ politiki v 1917-1918 godakh / S. Shvart͡s
• RSDRP (menʹshevikov) za vremi͡a s dekabri͡a 1917 po ii͡ulʹ 1918 g. / B. Nikolaevskiĭ
• Na perelome : k kharakteristike nastroeniĭ rabochego klassa Rossii v pervui͡u polovinu 1918 g. / G. Aronson
• Menʹshevizm v period voennogo kommunizma (1918-1921 gg.) / B. Nikolaevskiĭ.

• Предтечи и зарождение меньшевизма / Б. Сапир
• Из воспоминаний революционера 1905-1923 гг. / Е.А. Ананьин
• Меньшевики в 1917 году / Ю. Денике
• Меньшевики в первые дни революции / Б. Николаевский
• Состояние партийной организации к моменту Октябрьского переворота / Л. Ланде
• Меньшевики в дни Октябрьского переворота / Б. Николаевский
• Материалы о развитии программ экономической политики в 1917-1918 годах / С. Шварц
• РСДРП (меньшевиков) за время с декабря 1917 по июль 1918 г. / Б. Николаевский
• На переломе : к характеристике настроений рабочего класса России в первую половину 1918 г. / Г. Аронсон
• Меньшевизм в период военного коммунизма (1918-1921 гг.) / Б. Николаевский.