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Misinterpreting modern Russia
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ISBN: 9780826427724 0826427723 1501300563 1441101543 9781441101549 1322085900 9781322085906 9781441106797 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York, New York London [England]

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"When President Vladimir Putin ascended to the Kremlin at the end of the 1990s, he had to struggle with the after-effects of Boris Yeltsin's political agenda: outrageous corruption, endless social injustice, and deeply entrenched interests dating back to Gorbachev and beyond. From the outset, Putin saw his task as leveling out the political scenery. Discontent had been building up among ordinary Russians on these consequences of the dramatically unstable 1990s. Stabilization of the political system and cleaning up the widespread corruption were Putin's aims, and the Russian people supported him wholeheartedly. Many observers in the West were quick to condemn Putin and depict him as an authoritarian, dishonest leader who was still linked to the KGB. When asked why Russians were supporting the new Kremlin, many experts explained that it was a paradox that combined the country's supposed history of tyranny and its people's inclination towards it. These explanations shaped the West's understanding of modern Russia and they appear to be unshakeable in cultural circles today. Bruno Sergi argues, in this new study, that the way to know the complete story behind how Putin's presidency has been viewed in Russia, is to examine closely the hard realities that conditioned Putin's policies and responses. Misinterpreting Modern Russia: Western Views of Putin and his Presidency looks beyond the stereotypes to the hard logic of the 1990s, and asks a range of provocative questions about the disintegration of the old Soviet empire and the extraordinary riches that have caused so much opportunity and turmoil in recent years."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Russia as a great power : dimensions of security under Putin
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ISBN: 1134239165 1280376910 9786610376919 0203008340 9780203008348 9780415359962 0415359961 6610376913 9781134239160 9781134239115 1134239114 9781134239153 1134239157 9780415651578 0415651573 0415359961 9781280376917 Year: 2005 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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After a period of relative weakness and isolation during most of the 1990s, Russia is again appearing as a major security player in world politics. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Russia's current security situation, addressing such questions as: What kind of player is Russia in the field of security?What is the essence of its security policy?What are the sources, capabilities and priorities of its security policy?What are the prospects for the future?One important conclusion to emerge is that, while Russian foreign policy


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Fragile empire : how Russia fell in and out of love with Vladimir Putin
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ISBN: 1299483445 0300185251 9780300185256 9781299483446 9780300181210 0300181213 9780300205220 0300205228 Year: 2013 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin's friends, foes, and colleagues, government officials, business tycoons, mobsters, and ordinary Russian citizens. Fragile Empire is the fruit of Judah's thorough research: a probing assessment of Putin's rise to power and what it has meant for Russia and her people. Despite a propaganda program intent on maintaining the cliché of stability, Putin's regime was suddenly confronted in December 2011 by a highly public protest movement that told a different side of the story. Judah argues that Putinism has brought economic growth to Russia but also weaker institutions, and this contradiction leads to instability. The author explores both Putin's successes and his failed promises, taking into account the impact of a new middle class and a new generation, the Internet, social activism, and globalization on the president's impending leadership crisis. Can Russia avoid the crisis of Putinism? Judah offers original and up-to-the-minute answers.

Securitising Russia
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ISBN: 1781701318 1847792057 9781781701317 9781847792051 0719072247 9780719072246 1847796362 Year: 2006 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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Securitising Russia shows the impact of twenty-first-century security concerns on the way Russia is ruled. It demonstrates how President Putin has wrestled with terrorism, immigration, media freedom, religious pluralism, and economic globalism, and argues that fears of a return to old-style authoritarianism oversimplify the complex context of contemporary Russia.The book focuses on the internal security issues common to many states in the early twenty-first-century, and places them in the particular context of Russia. Detailed analysis of the place of security in Russia's political discourse a


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Youth Politics in Putin's Russia : Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs
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ISBN: 0253017815 9780253017819 9780253017727 0253017726 9780253017796 0253017793 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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Julie Hemment provides a fresh perspective on the controversial nationalist youth projects that have proliferated in Russia in the Putin era, examining them from the point of view of their participants and offering provocative insights into their origins and significance. The pro-Kremlin organization Nashi (""Ours"") and other state-run initiatives to mobilize Russian youth have been widely reviled in the West, seen as Soviet throwbacks and evidence of Russia's authoritarian turn. By contrast, Hemment's detailed ethnographic analysis finds an astute global awareness and a paradoxical kinship w


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Putinomics : Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
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ISBN: 1469640686 1469640678 9781469640679 9781469640686 9781469640662 146964066X 9798890853318 Year: 2018 Publisher: Chapel Hill : Baltimore, Md. : University of North Carolina Press, Project MUSE,

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When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles have guided Putin's economic policies? What patterns can be discerned? In this new analysis of Putin's Russia, Chris Miller examines its economic policy and the tools Russia's elite have used to achieve its goals. Miller argues that despite Russia's corruption, cronyism, and overdependence on oil as an economic driver, Putin's economic strategy has been surprisingly successful.


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Putin's master plan : the Russian president's unchecked global advance
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ISBN: 1594039984 9781594039980 Year: 2017 Publisher: Encounter Books


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Russia's new authoritarianism : Putin and the politics of order
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ISBN: 1474480616 147445478X 1474454763 Year: 2020 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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David G. Lewis explores the transformation of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy under Vladimir Putin. Using contemporary case studies - including Russia's legal system, the annexation of Crimea and Russian policy in Syria - he critically examines Russia's new authoritarian political ideology.

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