| Description |
388 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN |
9780870032363 (pbk.) |
|
9780870032370 (cloth) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Boris Yeltsin : a revolutionary who preserved tradition -- How will Yeltsin go down in history? -- The coming of Vladimir Putin : a new regime to preserve an old system -- Imitation democracy -- Can you sit and run at the same time? -- Pragmatists versus idealists -- Should I stay or should I go? -- The siloviki in power -- Oligarchy as myth and reality -- Liberal technocrats as an adornment of the state -- The triumph of bureaucratic capitalism -- Something new : a nuclear petro-power -- The state shakes off its social responsibilities -- What is behind Russia's new assertiveness -- Is Russia ready to set sail under her own steam? -- How can we learn to be neighbors? -- Russia and Europe : condemned to live together -- Russia and the United States : in search of new paradigm -- What went wrong? -- Bumps in the road -- The Bush-Putin legacy -- Unstable stability, or on shooting yourself in the foot -- What might detonate an explosion? -- Russia : going nowhere fast -- Can the West help the Russian liberal project? -- How to stop suicidal statecraft -- Paradoxes and hopes. |
| Library Class |
Sov Stud E980
|
| Subject |
Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
|
|
Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations.
|
|
