Russia lost in transition
Subtitle: the Yeltsin and Putin legacies
By: Lilia Shevtsova.
Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780870032363; 9780870032370
Subjects: Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-; Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Boris Yeltsin : a revolutionary who preserved tradition; title: How will Yeltsin go down in history?; title: The coming of Vladimir Putin : a new regime to preserve an old system; title: Imitation democracy; title: Can you sit and run at the same time?; title: Pragmatists versus idealists; title: Should I stay or should I go?; title: The siloviki in power; title: Oligarchy as myth and reality; title: Liberal technocrats as an adornment of the state; title: The triumph of bureaucratic capitalism; title: Something new : a nuclear petro-power; title: The state shakes off its social responsibilities; title: What is behind Russia's new assertiveness; title: Is Russia ready to set sail under her own steam?; title: How can we learn to be neighbors?; title: Russia and Europe : condemned to live together; title: Russia and the United States : in search of new paradigm; title: What went wrong?; title: Bumps in the road; title: The Bush-Putin legacy; title: Unstable stability, or on shooting yourself in the foot; title: What might detonate an explosion?; title: Russia : going nowhere fast; title: Can the West help the Russian liberal project?; title: How to stop suicidal statecraft; title: Paradoxes and hopes.