Shadow Separatism
Subtitle: Implications For Democratic Consolidation (Post-Soviet Politics)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: December 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780754640905
Subjects: Public Affairs & Administration; Politics and government; Civics & Citizenship; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Russia (Federation); Politics/International Relations; Regionalism; Political structure & processes; Russia; Central-local government relations; 1991-; Central-local government relat
First sentence: The first elected President in the history of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, considered a positive center-periphery relationship so essential to democratic transition that he endorsed the controversial design of asymmetrical federalism: Russia would maintain the ethno-territorial divisions of the old Soviet Union while the center would negotiate bilateral autonomy treaties with individual regions.