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Putin's Russia / Lilia Shevtsova.
Van Pelt Library DK510.763 .S492 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shevt︠s︡ova, Lilii︠a︡, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-.
- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich.
- Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.
- Russia (Federation).
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 306 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, [2003]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. The Kremlin's Power Play 7
- Yeltsin on the wane
- The Primakov formula
- Who runs Russia?
- The Kremlin seeks an heir
- The Bank of New York scandal
- Enter Putin
- Russia wants order
- The uses of war
- Chapter 2. The End of the Yeltsin Era 44
- The parliamentary elections of 1999
- The difficult fate of Russian liberals
- The Communist Party as a still powerful element
- Yeltsin amazes everyone and departs
- What Yeltsin leaves to his heir
- Chapter 3. Putin, the New Russian Leader 69
- Presidential elections without a choice
- What course to take?
- The new Kremlin spider web
- Formation of the government
- Taming of the governors
- Whom to rely upon
- The intelligentsia is concerned
- Chapter 4. The Moment of Truth 104
- Putin repeals the taboo on persecution of the oligarchs
- The victor in the boring wilderness
- A harsh August and a feeling of suffocation
- Reinforcing the superpresidential regime
- Military reform
- Chapter 5. Power in One Fist 134
- Chechnya as a trap
- The government under the gun
- The Soviet anthem
- Putin enters the world
- Why does the president want power?
- Chapter 6. Russia Tranquilized 163
- Back to the kitchen
- Society seeks calm
- Russian Gaullism
- Who loves Russia more?
- Pogrom at NTV
- Wax dummies
- Chapter 7. The Long-Awaited Breakthrough 187
- Putin renews market reforms
- Fighting bulldogs under the carpet
- Moscow and Washington work it out
- The Russian president chooses the West
- Disturbing signs
- Chapter 8. On the Eve of a New Race 221
- The nature of stability
- The grudges continue
- Putin's foreign policy success
- New uncertainties
- Freedom and order
- Chapter 9. An Unfinished Story: How Russia Responds to Its Challenges 261
- The West
- means and goal
- The Faustian bargain
- Will Russia be able to reject the Russian System fully and forever?
- Stability as a brake
- Will Putin destroy his regime?
- Russia's hope.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0870032011
- 087003202X
- OCLC:
- 51755821
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