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Russia--lost in transition : the Yeltsin and Putin legacies / Lilia Shevtsova ; translated by Arch Tait.

Shevtsova, Liliia Fedorovna. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780870032363 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0870032364 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780870032370 (cloth)
ISBN: 0870032372 (cloth)
Physical Description: xvi, 388 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Washington, DC : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-366) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Boris Yeltsin : a revolutionary who preserved tradition -- How will Yeltsin go down in history? -- The coming of Vladimir Putin : a new regime to preserve an old system -- Imitation democracy -- Can you sit and run at the same time? -- Pragmatists versus idealists -- Should I stay or should I go? -- The siloviki in power -- Oligarchy as myth and reality -- Liberal technocrats as an adornment of the state -- The triumph of bureaucratic capitalism -- Something new : a nuclear petro-power -- The state shakes off its social responsibilities -- What is behind Russia's new assertiveness? -- Is Russia ready to set sail under her own steam? -- How can we learn to be neighbors? -- Russia and Europe : condemned to live together -- Russia and the United States : in search of new paradigm -- What went wrong? -- Bumps in the road -- The Bush-Putin legacy -- Unstable stability, or On shooting yourself in the foot -- What might detonate an explosion? -- Russia : going nowhere fast -- Can the West help the Russian liberal project? -- How to stop suicidal statecraft -- Paradoxes and hopes.