Fragile empire : how Russia fell in and out of love with Vladimir Putin / Ben Judah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Judah, Ben.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-.

Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich.

Presidents--Russia (Federation).

Presidents.

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

Russia (Federation).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin's friends, foes, and colleagues, government officials, business tycoons, mobsters, and ordinary Russian citizens. Fragile Empire is the fruit of Judah's thorough research: a probing assessment of Putin's rise to power and what it has meant for Russia and her people. Despite a propaganda program intent on maintaining the cliché of stability, Putin's regime was suddenly confronted in December 2011 by a highly public protest movement that told a different side of the story. Judah argues that Putinism has brought economic growth to Russia but also weaker institutions, and this contradiction leads to instability. The author explores both Putin's successes and his failed promises, taking into account the impact of a new middle class and a new generation, the Internet, social activism, and globalization on the president's impending leadership crisis. Can Russia avoid the crisis of Putinism? Judah offers original and up-to-the-minute answers.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION THE WEAKEST STRONGMAN

1. The President from Nowhere

2. The Videocracy

3. The Great Turn

4. The Vertical of Power

5. Putin's Court

6. Dizzy with Success

7. Servant Medvedev

8. Navalny and the Evolution of the Opposition

9. The Decembrists

10. Moscow Is Not Russia

11. Moscow the Colonialist

12. Chinese Nightmares

Conclusion: The Ghosts

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781299483446

1299483445

9780300185256

0300185251

OCLC:

847002238