Ode to Autocracy: The Troubling Political and Economic Transformation of Russia, 1989-2020
Journal: Deep Blue (University of Michigan)
Year: 2025

Russia underwent an incredible transformation from an authoritarian communist state to a fragile democracy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which was quickly followed by another incredible transformation in the 2000s and 2010s- one in which Russia became an electoral autocracy. The dominant research regarding the return of Russian autocracy has focused primarily on broader historical trends and circumstances that have made Russian history uniquely autocratic in a European context, utilized a p