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100 1 _aSakwa, Richard.
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245 1 0 _aPutin
_bRussia`s choice
250 _a2nd ed.
260 _aNew York
_bRoutledge
_c2008
300 _axii,388p.
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [370]-375) and index.
505 0 _aThe path to power. The unlikely making of a leader ; Operation successor -- Ideas and choices. Who is Mister Putin? -- Normality, normalcy and normalisation ; Russia at the turn of the millennium ; Planning for the future ; The state of the nation speeches -- Putins path. ; Building the Putin Bloc ; Putin and the people ; Leadership and style ; National democracy and Russia's third way -- Parties, elections and the succession. ; Development of the party system ; Elections and electoral legislation ; Parliamentary realignment ; Putin, parties and government ; The Putin succession -- Regime, state and society. State and regime ; The liquidation of the oligarchs as a class ; Freedom of speech and the media ; Judicial reform and human rights -- Bureaucracy, incorporation and opposition. Bureaucracy and corruption ; Civil society and para-constitutional representation -- Regime and opposition -- Putin's new federalism. Segmented regionalism ; Features of the new federalism ; State reconstitution and federalism -- Reforging the nation. National images and state symbols ; Social aspects of national identity ; Chechnya: tombstone or crucible of Russian power? -- Russian capitalism. Entering the market ; Models of capitalism: state corporatism ; State, economy and society -- Putin's new realism in foreign policy. Towards a new realism ; Features of the new realism ; The new realism in practice -- Conclusion: the power of contradiction. Public politics ; Beyond transition ; The power of contradiction.
600 1 0 _aPutin, Vladimir Vladimirovich,
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651 0 _aRussia (Federation)
_xPolitics and government
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