Twice in the winter of 1999-2000, citizens of the Russian Federation flocked to their neighbourhood voting stations and scratched their ballots in an atmosphere of uncertainty, rancor and fear. This book is a tale of these two elections - one for the 450-seat Duma, the other for president. Despite financial crisis, a national security emergency in Chechnya, and cabinet instability, Russian voters unexpectedly supported the status quo. The elected lawmakers were prepared to co-operate with the executive branch, a gift that had eluded President Boris Yeltsin since he imposed a post-Soviet constitution by referendum in 1993. When Yeltsin retired six months in advance of schedule, the presidential mantle went to Vladimir Putin - a career KGB officer who fused new and old ways of doing politics. Putin was easily elected president in his own right. This book demonstrates key trends in an extinct superpower, a troubled country in whose stability, modernization and openness to the international community the West still has a huge stake.
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Timothy J. Colton is professor of government and Russian studies in the Department of Government and director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. His previous books include Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis (Harvard, 1995), named best book in government and political science 1995 by the Association of American Publishers.
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THIS BOOK IS A TALE of linked political events: a pair of recent elections in the heir to an extinct superpower, a troubled nation in whose stability, modernization, and openness to the global community the West still has a huge stake. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
odnomandatnykh okrugakh, weekend newsmagazines, same party family, quasi parties, simultaneous variables, weighted cases, managed democracy, miscellaneous parties, strongman leader, quasi party, postelection interview, national slate, survey informants, district candidates, electoral statistics, frequent viewers, percent barrier, issue competence, median date, electoral bloc, communist voters, citizen opinion, district races, survey panel, straight ticket Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fatherland-All Russia, Vladimir Putin, Our Home Is Russia, Union of Right Forces, United States, Russia's Choice, Sergei Shoigu, Boris Yeltsin, State Duma, Federation Council, Sergei Kiriyenko, Yevgenii Primakov, Boris Berezovskii, Soviet Union, Spiritual Heritage, Yurii Luzhkov, Aman Tuleyev, Electoral Consistency, United Russia, Voice of Russia, Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennadii Zyuganov, Grigorii Yavlinskii, Regions of Russia, Russia's Democratic Choice New!
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THIS BOOK IS A TALE of linked political events: a pair of recent elections in the heir to an extinct superpower, a troubled nation in whose stability, modernization, and openness to the global community the West still has a huge stake. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
odnomandatnykh okrugakh, weekend newsmagazines, same party family, quasi parties, simultaneous variables, weighted cases, managed democracy, miscellaneous parties, strongman leader, quasi party, postelection interview, national slate, survey informants, district candidates, electoral statistics, frequent viewers, percent barrier, issue competence, median date, electoral bloc, communist voters, citizen opinion, district races, survey panel, straight ticket Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fatherland-All Russia, Vladimir Putin, Our Home Is Russia, Union of Right Forces, United States, Russia's Choice, Sergei Shoigu, Boris Yeltsin, State Duma, Federation Council, Sergei Kiriyenko, Yevgenii Primakov, Boris Berezovskii, Soviet Union, Spiritual Heritage, Yurii Luzhkov, Aman Tuleyev, Electoral Consistency, United Russia, Voice of Russia, Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennadii Zyuganov, Grigorii Yavlinskii, Regions of Russia, Russia's Democratic Choice New!
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- Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia by Timothy J. Colton on 7 pages
- First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President by Vladimir Putin on 5 pages
- The Oligarchs: Wealth And Power In The New Russia by David Hoffman on 4 pages
- Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America (Studies in Rationality and Social Change) by Adam Przeworski in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Contemporary Russian Politics: A Reader by Archie Brown on page 24, and Back Matter
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- Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy Toward Russia after the Cold War by James M. Goldgeier in Back Matter
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