Resisting the state
Subtitle: reform and retrenchment in post-Soviet Russia
By: Kathryn Stoner-Weiss.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Central-local government relations -- Russia (Federation); Regionalism -- Russia (Federation); Bureaucracy -- Russia (Federation); Post-communism -- Russia (Federation); Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: W(h)ither the Russian state?; title: Apparatchiki into "entrepreneurchiki" : the sources of Russia's weak central state; title: Governing Russia : patterns of regional resistance; title: Inside the Russian state : assessing infrastructural power in the provinces; title: Retrenchment over reform : obstacles to the central state in the periphery; title: Weak party system, weak central state; title: The comparative implications of Russia's weak state syndrome.