Restructuring Post-Communist Russia

by Edited by Yitzhak Brudny , Jonathan Frankel , Stefani Hoffman

• ISBN13: 9780521840279
• ISBN10: 0521840279
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Written by Russian and Western scholars, this collection of original essays presents a general overview of political change in Russia since 1991. Rather than interpret the collapse of state socialism as "the end of history" or the beginning of the "transition" to a liberal, free market democracy, the contributors examine recent Russian history by analyzing it in comparison with the histories of other states of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. They address topics of national identity, demographic change, and the characteristics of Russian democracy.

Table of Contents

Introduction Peter Rutland

Part I. The Comparative Dimension: 1. What went wrong? Post-communist transformations in comparative perspective Anatoly M. Khazanov

2. Communist legacies and new trajectories: democracy and dictatorship in the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe Alexander J. Motyl

3. Learning from post-socialism Valerie Bunce

4. Ukraine's hollow decade Ilya Prizel

Part II. Russia in Free Fall? Key Challenges: 5. The Russian transition to the market: success or failure? Marshall I. Goldman

6. Potholes on the road to a flourishing Russia: structural problems in the second decade Theodore H. Friedgut

7. The search for a national identity in the Russia of Yeltsin and Putin Vera Tolz

Part III. The Russian Political System: Toward Stabilization?: 8. The dilemmas of Federalism: Moscow and the regions in the Russian Federation Oksana Oracheva

9. The evolution of the multiparty system Andrey Ryabov

10. The elections since 1989: the end of the chapter? Nikolai V. Petrov

11. Leaders, structural conditions, and Russia's foreign policy Rajan Menon.