Politics and the ruling group in Putin's Russia
By: edited by Stephen White.
Contributors: White, Stephen, 1945-
Series: Studies in Central and Eastern Europe
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780230524835
Subjects: Post-communism -- Russia (Federation); Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: What kind of political regime does Russia have? / Hans-Henning Schroeder; title: The presidentialization of a semi-presidential regime : the case of Russia / Oleg Zaznaev; title: The Russian Federal Security Service under President Putin / Eberhard Schneider; title: The inherent instability of the ruling elite / Hillel Ticktin; title: Interest groups and economic reform in contemporary Russia : before and after Yukos / Andrei Yakovlev; title: The "oligarchs" in Russian mass consciousness / Alexander Chepurenko; title: Are Russia's oligarchs scapegoats? Some empirical evidence from the Russian press / Jakob Fruchtmann; title: Unintentional humour in Oligarkh and Antikiller, or how new are the "new Russians?" / Andrei Rogachevsky.