Russia’s Changing Economic and Political Regimes: The Putin Years and Afterwards

Russia’s Changing Economic and Political Regimes: The Putin Years and Afterwards

by Andre Mommen (Editor), Andrey Makarychev (Editor)

Synopsis

The book reveals the interconnection between social, cultural and political protest movements and social and economic changes in a post-communist country like Russia still dominated by bureaucratic rulers and oligarchs controlling all basic industries and mining activities. Those interests are also dominating Russia's foreign policy and explain why Russia did not succeed in becoming an integral part of Europe. The latter is, at least, wished by many Russian citizens.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 352
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09 Dec 2016

ISBN 10: 1138243469
ISBN 13: 9781138243460

Author Bio
Andrey Makarychev is Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for East European Studies, Free University of Berlin. His fields of academic research include Russian foreign and security policies, EU-Russian relations, issues of regionalism and federalism. Andre Mommen obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Free University Brussels, Belgium, where he went on to lecture, before moving to the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Today he is working as a consultant.