Bibliograph

Russia lost in transition, the Yeltsin and Putin legacies, Lilia Shevtsova ; translated by Arch Tait

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Russia lost in transition, the Yeltsin and Putin legacies, Lilia Shevtsova ; translated by Arch Tait

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-366) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Russia lost in transition

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1098091

Responsibility statement

Lilia Shevtsova ; translated by Arch Tait

Sub title

the Yeltsin and Putin legacies

Table Of Contents

Boris Yeltsin : a revolutionary who preserved tradition -- How will Yeltsin go down in history? -- The coming of Vladimir Putin : a new regime to preserve an old system -- Imitation democracy -- Can you sit and run at the same time? -- Pragmatists versus idealists -- Should I stay or should I go? -- The siloviki in power -- Oligarchy as myth and reality -- Liberal technocrats as an adornment of the state -- The triumph of bureaucratic capitalism -- Something new : a nuclear petro-power -- The state shakes off its social responsibilities -- What is behind Russia's new assertiveness? -- Is Russia ready to set sail under her own steam? -- How can we learn to be neighbors? -- Russia and Europe : condemned to live together -- Russia and the United States : in search of a new paradigm -- What went wrong? -- Bumps in the road -- The Bush-Putin legacy -- Unstable stability, or on shooting yourself in the foot -- What might detonate an explosion? -- Russia : going nowhere fast -- Can the West help the Russian liberal project? -- How to stop suicidal statecraft -- Paradoxes and hopes

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Yeltsin and Putin legacies

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