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CONTENTS
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
1 Politics in Russia
Richard Sakwa
The Soviet system
Perestroika: from rationalisation to disintegration
Post-communist Russia: the Yeltsin years
Putin: the politics of stability
Challenges of democratisation
Conclusion
2 Presidency and Executive
John P. Willerton
Putin and the legacy of a strong executive
Institutions of the federal executive
The Putin team
The continued Putin presidency
3 Political Parties
Ora John Reuter
Political parties and Russia’s stalled democratization: 1991–
2003
The emergence of a dominant party system
United Russia as the dominant party
United Russia and the electorate
Opposition in Russia
Conclusion
4 Parliamentary Politics in Russia
Ben Noble
History
Federal Assembly
The law-making process and outputs
Recent parliamentary developments
Conclusion
5 National Identity and the Contested Nation
Marlene Laruelle
The contested identity of the Russian Federation
Stabilising Russia’s national narrative knots
Nationalist movements
The interplay of state nationhood and non-state nationalism
Conclusion
6 Protest, Civil Society and Informal Politics
Graeme B. Robertson
Political protest and contentious politics in Russian history
Putin and protest
The protest cycle of 2011–12
Protest, civil society and politics since 2012
Protest, civil society and the presidential election of 2018
Conclusion
7 Russia, Media and Audiences
Ellen Mickiewicz
Television
Radio
Newspapers
The internet
RT: Russia projected abroad
The critical importance of scale
Cognitive processing and state messages
8 Assessing the Rule of Law in Russia
Kathryn Hendley
The heritage of Soviet law
The institutional structure of the Russian legal system
The Russian legal system in action
Russians’ expectations of the legal system
Prospects for the rule of law in Russia
9 A Federal State?
Darrell Slider
Putin’s vertical of power
Interactions between governors and the president
Federal agencies in the regions and the problem of
decentralisation
10 Managing the Economy
Philip Hanson
Russia’s recent economic performance
The domestic sources of stagnation
Recent economic policy in Russia
The future: reform for the sake of faster growth?
11 Inequality and Social Policy in Russia
Thomas F. Remington
The challenge of social policy
Rising inequality
Evolution of the social welfare system
Income inequality and access to social services
The challenge of policy reform
12 Russian Foreign Policy
Valentina Feklyunina
The making of Russian foreign policy
Russia’s foreign policy priorities
Russian foreign policy: from integration to confrontation with the
West
Russia’s foreign policy dilemmas
Conclusion: explaining Russian foreign policy
13 Security, the Military and Politics
Bettina Renz
Yeltsin, security and the military
Putin, security and politics
Putin, the military and politics
A Russian military resurgence?
Conclusion
14 Russia and its Neighbours
Samuel Charap
A diverse region
Pushing and pulling
Conflicts heat up and freeze
Integration gets serious
Conclusion
15 The Continuing Evolution of Russia’s Political
System
Henry E. Hale
A social context of patronalism
Power networks in Russian politics
The emergence of Russia’s single-pyramid system
The problem of presidential succession
Tightening the political machine
Dilemmas of governance facing Putin
Putin’s appeal
Putin’s strong-hand rule: more subtle than brutal
So, what kind of regime is Russia and what lies ahead?
Guide to Further Reading
Glossary
References
Index
