No illusions : the voices of Russia's future leaders / Ellen Mickiewicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mickiewicz, Ellen Propper, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political leadership--Russia (Federation).

Political leadership.

College students.

Russia (Federation).

Political culture--Russia (Federation).

Political culture.

Democracy--Russia (Federation).

Democracy.

Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.

Politics and government.

College students--Russia (Federation)--Attitudes.

College students--Russia (Federation)--Interviews.

College students--Attitudes.

Political science.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

255 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Summary:

"What will the next generation of Russian leaders be like? How will they regard the United States, democracy, free speech, and immigration? What do they think of their current leaders? And what sorts of tactics will they bring to international negotiating tables, political and otherwise? Splinters in the Ice provides an engaging, intimate, and unprecedented window onto the mindsets of the next generation of leaders in Russian politics, business, and economics. In it, Ellen Mickiewicz, one of the world's foremost experts on Russian media, politics and culture, draws on interviews with students in Russia's three most elite universities, the training grounds for all of the nation's leadership. Allowing these students to speak in their own words, she shares their thoughts on international relations, the domestic and international media, democratic movements, and their government. She also shows how their total immersion in the world of the internet - an immersion that sets them apart from the current generation of Russian leadership and much of the rest of the country - frames the way that they think and affects their trust in their leaders, the media, and their colleagues. Mickiewicz also looks at the nation's recent protests and nascent political movements to show how they came about and to consider what promise, if any, they might hold for a more democratic Russia. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Introduction

Chapter 1: America Refracted

Chapter 2: Russian Leaders

Chapter 3: Should I Take a Chance on Trust?

Chapter 4: Life on the Russian Internet

Chapter 5: Different Faces of Demonstrations and One Experiment Carving Democracy in the Internet

Chapter 6: Game Changers, Reprisals and Political Competition

Chapter 7: The Future Takes Shape

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199977833

0199977836

OCLC:

879851344