Preface | p. ix |
Rebuilding the Russian State | p. 1 |
Four Domains of Change | p. 10 |
State Structure: From Soviet Union to Russian Federation | p. 10 |
Regime Change | p. 13 |
Economic Transformation | p. 18 |
The Question of Identity: Imperial Russia-USSR-Russian Federation | p. 19 |
Choices and Changes in Russian Politics | p. 23 |
Plan of the Book | p. 24 |
The Soviet System and Its Demise | p. 31 |
The Soviet Regime Before Gorbachev | p. 32 |
Gorbachev Comes to Power | p. 44 |
Political Institutions of the Transition Period: Demise of the USSR | p. 47 |
Russia and the Post-Soviet Constitutional Order | p. 54 |
The Russian Republic in the Transition Period | p. 54 |
1990-1993: Deepening Constitutional Conflict | p. 55 |
The 1993 Constitution and the Presidency | p. 58 |
The Government | p. 62 |
The Parliament | p. 64 |
Executive-Legislative Relations | p. 69 |
The Constitutional Court | p. 70 |
The Federal Dimension | p. 71 |
Political Participation and Recruitment | p. 86 |
Political Participation and Social Capital | p. 86 |
The Importance of Social Capital | p. 87 |
The Problem of "Dual Russia" | p. 88 |
Participation and Recruitment Under the Soviet Regime | p. 93 |
Channels of Mass Participation | p. 93 |
Participation and Recruitment in the Old Regime: Interlocking Directorates | p. 97 |
Participation and Recruitment in the Old Regime: Conclusions | p. 98 |
Surge and Ebb in Political Participation | p. 99 |
The Mobilization of Discontent | p. 99 |
Electoral Participation | p. 103 |
Elite Adaptation and Replacement | p. 110 |
Political Recruitment, Old and New | p. 110 |
The Dynamics of Political Culture | p. 122 |
The Concept of Political Culture | p. 126 |
Russian Political Culture in the Post-Soviet Period | p. 128 |
Soviet Political Socialization | p. 131 |
Support for Democratic Values | p. 136 |
Influences on Russian Political Culture in the Soviet Period | p. 139 |
Cultural Diversity Within Russia | p. 143 |
Interest Groups and Political Parties | p. 149 |
Interest Articulation: Statism Versus Pluralism | p. 149 |
Democrats, "Reds," and "Browns" | p. 153 |
Toward Pluralism | p. 153 |
New Sectors of Interest | p. 167 |
Interest Aggregation: Stalled Development of the Party System | p. 169 |
Party Ideologies | p. 171 |
Stalled Development of the Party System | p. 178 |
Elections and Party Development | p. 178 |
Party Strategies and the Social Bases of Party Support | p. 183 |
The Future of the Party System | p. 185 |
The Politics of Partial Reform | p. 192 |
The Dual Transition | p. 192 |
Stabilization | p. 196 |
From Communism to Capitalism | p. 197 |
Supporters and Opponents of Reform | p. 199 |
Consequences of Reform | p. 200 |
Privatization | p. 203 |
Economy and Society | p. 214 |
Social Conditions | p. 216 |
Putin's Dual Agenda | p. 219 |
Summing Up | p. 220 |
Politics and Law | p. 226 |
Democratization and the Rule of Law | p. 226 |
Judicial Reform | p. 229 |
The Procuracy | p. 232 |
The Judiciary | p. 237 |
The Constitutional Court | p. 241 |
Reforms in the Law Codes | p. 246 |
Obstacles to the Rule of Law | p. 247 |
Organized Crime and Corruption | p. 252 |
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