Russian Politics and Society

by Sakwa; Richard

• ISBN13: 9780415227537
• ISBN10: 0415227534
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-05-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Richard Sakwa'sRussian Politics and Societyis the most comprehensive study of Russia's post-communist political development. It has, since its first publication in 1993, become an indispensable guide for all those who need to know about the current political scene in Russia, about the country's political stability and about the future of democracy under its post-communist leadership. The third edition, has been updated throughout to include details of Yeltsin's second term and the impact on Russian politics of the rise of his successor, Vladimir Putin. It also contains a substantially expanded bibliography, and appendices showing election results, chronology, social and demographic figures and recent census data.

Author Biography

Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
List of tables	x
Preface to the third edition	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Note on style, spelling and transliteration	xiv
Glossary of acronyms acrostics and terms	xv
PART I The fall of communism and the rebirth of Russia	1	(42)
Soviet communism and its dissolution	3	(24)
The Soviet system	4	(4)
Perestroika	8	(8)
The emergence of Russia	16	(3)
Popular insurgency and regime decay	19	(5)
Conclusion	24	(3)
The disintegration of the USSR	27	(16)
The August coup	27	(4)
The disintegration of the USSR	31	(7)
Problems of state-building	38	(3)
Conclusion	41	(2)
PART II Political institutions and processes	43	(158)
The new constitutional order	45	(27)
Crisis and culminations: October 1993	45	(9)
The 1993 constitution	54	(12)
The Constitutional Court	66	(2)
Constitutionalism, law and the state	68	(2)
Conclusion	70	(2)
Law and society	72	(26)
The legal system	72	(7)
Crime and the mafia	79	(2)
Corruption and metacorruption	81	(10)
The security apparatus and politics	91	(4)
Human and civil rights	95	(1)
Conclusion	96	(2)
The executive	98	(27)
The presidency	98	(11)
The government	109	(13)
Public administration: from nomenklatura to civil service?	122	(1)
Conclusion	123	(2)
The legislature	125	(15)
The State Duma	125	(7)
The Federation Council (FC)	132	(5)
Parliamentarianism and Russian politics	137	(1)
Conclusion	138	(2)
Electoral politics	140	(32)
The experience of elections	140	(24)
Elections and the Russian political system	164	(6)
Conclusion	170	(2)
Party development	172	(29)
Stages of party development	172	(12)
Parties and the multi-party system	184	(5)
Problems of social representation	189	(10)
Conclusion	199	(2)
PART III Federalism, regionalism and nationalism	201	(76)
Federalism and the state	203	(21)
Ethno-federalism and its legacy	203	(11)
Russian federalism	214	(8)
Conclusion	222	(2)
Regional and local politics	224	(30)
The organisation of power	224	(6)
Federalism and regional politics	230	(18)
Local self-government	248	(4)
Conclusion	252	(2)
National identity and state-building	254	(23)
From empire to state	254	(8)
Russian national identity	262	(5)
State-building	267	(7)
Conclusion	274	(3)
PART IV Economy and society	277	(70)
Marketising the economy	279	(26)
The road to the market	279	(12)
Problems of the Russian economy	291	(9)
Evaluation of market reform	300	(3)
Conclusion	303	(2)
Society and social movements	305	(26)
Social structure and dynamics	305	(8)
Welfare and incomes	313	(5)
Social movements	318	(11)
Conclusion	329	(2)
Cultural transformation	331	(16)
The media	331	(4)
Culture and the intelligentsia	335	(2)
Religion and the state	337	(2)
Political culture and public opinion	339	(5)
The crisis of values	344	(2)
Conclusion	346	(1)
PART V Foreign policies	347	(76)
Foreign policy	349	(26)
The evolution of foreign policy	349	(7)
The structure of policy-making	356	(4)
The debate over foreign policy	360	(5)
Russia and the world	365	(8)
Conclusion	373	(2)
Commonwealth, community and fragmentation	375	(21)
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)	375	(12)
Security and peacekeeping	387	(4)
Minorities and Russians abroad	391	(3)
Conclusion	394	(2)
Defence and security policy	396	(27)
The end of the Soviet armed forces	396	(3)
The great retreat	399	(3)
Defence conversion and arms sales	402	(1)
Nuclear politics and non proliferation	403	(2)
Military reform	405	(4)
Civil-military relations	409	(4)
Military and security doctrine	413	(1)
Security policy and Nato enlargement	414	(6)
Conclusion	420	(3)
PART VI Dilemmas of democratisation	423	(52)
Problems of transition	425	(20)
The challenge of history	425	(5)
Transitional justice	430	(2)
Models of transition	432	(11)
Conclusion	443	(2)
Pluralism, elites, regime and leadership	445	(18)
Russian pluralism	445	(3)
Old and new elites	448	(6)
Regime politics	454	(4)
Leadership and regime change	458	(3)
Conclusion	461	(2)
Democracy in Russia	463	(12)
Democracy, liberalism and the Russian state	463	(6)
A struggling democracy?	469	(6)
Notes	475	(49)
Select bibliography	524	(3)
Index	527