Russian Politics and Society

by RichardSakwa (Author)

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  2002

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  Sakwa's Russian Politics and Society is the most comprehensive study of Russia's post-communist political development. For this third edition, Sakwa has updated the text throughout to include details of Yeltsin's second term and the impact on Russian politics of the rise of his successor, Vladimir Putin. 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. Also contains a substantially expanded bibliography and appendices showing election results, chronology, social and demographic figures and recent census data.This is the ideal introductory textbook: it covers all the key issues; it is clearly written; and it includes the most up-to-date material available.

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.30

  This introductory text provides an accessible account of politics and society in Russia since the failed coup of August 1991. The author is one of the UK's most respected teachers and academics. Yeltsin and other leading figures have been faced with similar economic and political problems to those that confronted Gorbachev, but have dealt with them in very different ways. Strategies adopted have provoked intense debate and often acrimonious rivalries and struggles to control the levers of power. It is too early yet to be able to give firm conclusions, but the material presented here aims to provide a framework for discussion. It should provide both a critical synthesis of some of the central debates, and place the major issues in historical and political context.