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Russian politics and presidential power : transformational leadership from Gorbachev to Putin / Donald R. Kelley.
LIBRA JN6696 .K45 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelley, Donald R., 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Executive power--Russia (Federation).
- Executive power.
- Presidents.
- Russia (Federation).
- Executive power--Soviet Union.
- Presidents--Russia (Federation).
- Presidents--Soviet Union.
- Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.
- Politics and government.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government--1985-1991.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 296 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, California : CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE Publications, Inc., [2017]
- Summary:
- Russian Politics and Presidential Power takes an in-depth look at the Russian presidency and uses it as a key to understanding Russian politics. Donald R. Kelley looks at presidents from Gorbachev to Putin as authoritarian, transformational leaders who set out to build the future, while sometimes rejecting and reinterpreting the work of past modernizers. Placing the presidency in this context helps readers understand both the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the nature of the Russian Federation that rose in its place. By setting the presidency within a longer historical context, Kelley shows how the future of the presidency is dependent on other features of the political system. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Executive Power in Russian Politics 1
- What Does Executive Leadership Mean in the Russian Context? 3
- Authoritarian Modernizers: The Prototype 3
- Characteristics of Authoritarian Modernizers 7
- What Can We Learn from Past "Executives"? 12
- Earlier Authoritarian Modernizers 12
- The Brezhnev Era: The Long Calm before the Storm 19
- The Uncertain Interregnum: Andropov and Chernenko 21
- Chapter 2 The Gorbachev Presidency 25
- The Starting Point: What Gorbachev Intended 26
- Gorbachev's Rise to Power 28
- From General Secretary to President 31
- The Reform Agenda: Politics and Policy 32
- Glasnost 33
- The Economy: Perestroika 33
- Judicial Reform 35
- Foreign Policy 36
- Political Reform: Democratization 40
- Democratization of the Communist Party 41
- The Gorbachev Presidency 43
- The Presidency of the Russian Federation 45
- The Battle of the Presidents 46
- Gorbachev as an Authoritarian Modernizer 51
- Chapter 3 The Yeltsin Presidency, 1991-1993 55
- Yeltsin's Path to Moscow 55
- From Outcast to President 59
- The President Becomes a President 61
- A Real President Gets a Real Nation 64
- Personal Rivalries 65
- Economic Reforms as a Political Issue 66
- Yeltsin's Economic Reforms: Phase I (1991-1993) 68
- The Reform of the Party-State 69
- National Identity and the Union Treaty 70
- Judicial Reform 73
- The President and the Legislature 74
- Foreign Policy 81
- Yeltsin as an Authoritarian Modernizer: A Preliminary Assessment 83
- Chapter 4 Yeltsin and Russia Reborn 87
- The Presidency and the Legislature 91
- Judicial Reform 95
- The 1993 Duma Elections 96
- The 1995 Duma Elections 99
- The 1996 Presidential Election 102
- The Second Term: From Victory to Resignation 105
- Yeltsin's Economic Reforms: Phase II (1994-1999) 109
- Foreign Policy 111
- The First Chechen War 113
- The December 1999 Duma Elections 114
- Yeltsin's Surprise Resignation 117
- Yeltsin as an Authoritarian Modernizer: A Final Assessment 118
- Chapter 5 Putin I, 2000-2008 121
- The 2000 Presidential Election 122
- Vladimir Putin: From Spy Novels to the Kremlin 123
- The Putin Formula 125
- The Putin Presidency Emerges from Yeltsin's Shadow 134
- Outside the Garden Ring: "Managing" the New Democracy 140
- The Presidency and the Legislature: The 2003 Duma Elections 141
- Judicial Reform 142
- The 2004 Presidential Election 143
- The Rules and the Game Change 145
- The Run-Up to the 2008 Presidential Election 146
- The 2007 Duma Elections 148
- Putin's Economic Reforms 150
- Foreign Policy 152
- The Second Chechen War 154
- The 2008 Presidential Election 155
- Putin as an Authoritarian Modernizer 157
- Chapter 6 The "Tandem" 163
- Dmitry Medvedev: Putins Friend from Leningrad 166
- Governing the Nation in Tandem 168
- Medvedev and Putin in Tandem 172
- Factional Realities 173
- Medvedev and Economic Reform 174
- Medvedev and Political Modernization 177
- Judicial Reform 180
- Foreign Policy 181
- The Russian-Georgian War 184
- Medvedev and the Legislature: The 2011 Duma Elections 186
- The Duma Election and Voting Fraud 188
- The 2012 Presidential Election 190
- Election Results 197
- Medvedev as an Authoritarian Modernizer 198
- Chapter 7 Putin II, 2012 203
- The "New" Cabinet 204
- Putin II: Old and New Realities 205
- Maintaining the Balance within the Garden Ring 206
- Controlling the Opposition 208
- The Economy: Prosperity and Modernity 209
- Foreign Policy 212
- Crimea and Ukraine 214
- Russian Foreign Policy and the World 220
- The Three Arenas of Russian Politics 222
- Inside the Garden Ring: Factional Politics in Putin II 222
- A Note on the Siloviki 228
- Outside the Garden Ring: Politics in the Rest of the Russian Federation 230
- The Authoritarian Modernizer Revisited 231
- The Legal System and the Courts 233
- Connecting Those Inside and Outside the Garden Ring 235
- Political Parties 236
- Civil Society 239
- Control of the Media 240
- The Leadership Cult as a Connection 241
- Putin as an Authoritarian Modernizer 242
- Chapter 8 The Future(s) of Russian Politics 251
- The Future of the Russian Presidency(ies) 252
- What Will Drive Change? 256
- Changes in the Nature of Factional Politics 257
- Changes in the Nature of Electoral Politics at the National, Regional, and Local Levels 263
- Politics Moves to the Street: A Color Revolution or Moscow Spring 276
- What Is a Color Revolution? 277
- A Russian Color Revolution? 279.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780872894044
- 0872894045
- OCLC:
- 966951481
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