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List of photographs, figures and tables | p. vii |
Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Introduction: Putin's Russia in deep focus | p. 1 |
From Gorbachev to Yeltsin | p. 16 |
Soviet and post-Soviet elites (1986-91) | p. 16 |
Yeltsin's Russia and the world (1992-95) | p. 23 |
From Yeltsin to Putin | p. 32 |
The weak state and the oligarchs (1995-96) | p. 32 |
Society shattered | p. 39 |
Yeltsin's second term and the financial crash (1996-99) | p. 43 |
Power and Money: The Economic Foundations | p. 47 |
How the economy changed | p. 47 |
The shifting balance of oil power | p. 53 |
Russia and the resource curse | p. 58 |
Power and Money: The State, Oligarchs and Oil | p. 62 |
Enter the men from the KGB (1999-2002) | p. 62 |
The state takes charge of oil and gas (2002-07) | p. 71 |
The 'energy weapon' | p. 84 |
Power and Money: From Oil Boom to Bust | p. 87 |
The oil boom (2002-07) | p. 87 |
The world crisis takes its toll (2007-09) | p. 99 |
Power and People: How Russia is Ruled | p. 111 |
The war that made Putin | p. 111 |
'Managed democracy' and its limits | p. 118 |
People and Money: Human Development Dilemmas | p. 133 |
The demographic and health crisis | p. 133 |
The widening gap between rich and poor | p. 137 |
Social policy under Putin | p. 145 |
People: Parties, Unions and NGOs | p. 148 |
The political opposition | p. 151 |
Movements for human rights and the environment, and other NGOs | p. 155 |
What about the workers? | p. 160 |
People: Grassroots Movements | p. 173 |
The welfare benefits revolt | p. 173 |
Housing rights action | p. 177 |
An array of causes | p. 185 |
Conclusions | p. 191 |
Notes | p. 198 |
Glossary of Russian words and abbreviations | p. 216 |
Chronology | p. 217 |
Further reading | p. 220 |
Index | p. 222 |
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