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| List of tables | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| The path to power | |
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| The unlikely making of a leader | |
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| Operation successor | |
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| Ideas and choices | |
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| Who is Mister Putin? | |
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| Normality, normalcy and normalisation | |
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| Russia at the turn of the millennium | |
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| Planning for the future | |
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| The 'state of the nation' speeches | |
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| Putin's path | |
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| Building the Putin bloc | |
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| Putin and the people | |
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| Leadership and style | |
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| National democracy and Russia's 'third way' | |
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| Parties, elections and the succession | |
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| Development of the party system | |
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| Elections and electoral legislation | |
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| Parliamentary realignment | |
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| Putin, parties and government | |
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| The Putin succession | |
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| Regime, state and society | |
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| State and regime | |
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| The 'liquidation of the oligarchs as a class' | |
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| Freedom of speech and the media | |
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| Judicial reform and human rights | |
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| Bureaucracy, incorporation and opposition | |
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| Bureaucracy and corruption | |
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| Civil society and para-constitutional representation | |
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| Regime and opposition | |
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| Putin's 'new federalism' | |
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| Segmented regionalism | |
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| Features of the 'new federalism' | |
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| State reconstitution and federalism | |
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| Reforging the nation | |
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| National images and state symbols | |
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| Social aspects of national identity | |
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| Chechnya: tombstone or crucible of Russian power? | |
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| Russian capitalism | |
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| Entering the market | |
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| Models of capitalism - state corporatism? | |
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| State, economy and society | |
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| Putin's new realism in foreign policy | |
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| Towards a new realism | |
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| Features of the new realism | |
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| The new realism in practice | |
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| Conclusion: the power of contradiction | |
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| Public politics | |
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| Beyond transition | |
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| The power of contradiction | |
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| Russia at the turn of the millennium | |
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| Notes | |
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| Select bibliography | |
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| Index | |