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| List of figures | |
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| List of tables | |
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| Preface to the fourth edition | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Note on style, spelling and transliteration | |
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| Glossary of acronyms, acrostics and terms | |
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| The fall of communism and the rebirth of Russia | |
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| Soviet communism and its dissolution | |
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| The Soviet system | |
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| Perestroika | |
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| The emergence of Russia | |
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| Popular insurgency and regime decay | |
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| The disintegration of the USSR | |
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| The August coup | |
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| The disintegration of the USSR | |
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| Problems of state-building | |
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| Phoney democracy, 1991-3 | |
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| Phoney democracy: the road to October 1993 | |
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| Genesis of a tragedy | |
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| The troubled path to the constitution | |
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| Political institutions and processes | |
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| Constitutionalism and the law | |
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| The 1993 constitution | |
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| The Constitutional Court | |
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| The legal system and its reform | |
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| Law and constitutionalism | |
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| Crime, corruption and security | |
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| Crime and the mafia | |
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| Corruption, meta-corruption and anti-corruption | |
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| The security apparatus and politics | |
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| Human and civil rights | |
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| The executive | |
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| The presidency | |
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| The government | |
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| Prime ministers and their policies | |
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| Public administration: from nomenklatura to civil service | |
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| Party development | |
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| Stages of party development | |
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| Normative framework of party development | |
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| The party system today | |
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| Problems of social representation | |
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| Electoral politics | |
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| Founding elections and electoral management | |
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| The electoral system and its reform | |
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| The experience of elections | |
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| Direct democracy: referendums | |
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| Electoral engagement | |
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| The legislature | |
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| Elections to the State Duma | |
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| Organisation | |
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| Role | |
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| The Federation Council (FC) | |
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| Nationalism, federalism and regionalism | |
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| National identity and state-building | |
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| From empire to state | |
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| Russian nationalism and national identity | |
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| State-building: borders and citizenship | |
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| Federalism and the new state | |
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| Ethno-federalism and its legacy | |
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| Russian federalism | |
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| Segmented regionalism and the new federalism | |
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| Segmented regionalism | |
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| Putin's 'new federalism' | |
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| Segmented regionalism and asymmetrical federalism | |
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| Economy and society | |
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| Russian capitalism | |
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| The road to the market | |
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| The Russian economy today | |
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| Evaluation of market reform | |
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| Society and social movements | |
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| Social structure and dynamics | |
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| Welfare and incomes | |
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| Social movements | |
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| Para-constitutionalism and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) | |
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| Cultural transformation | |
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| The media | |
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| Culture and the intelligentsia | |
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| Religion and the state | |
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| Political culture and public opinion | |
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| The reshaping of values | |
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| Foreign, security and neighbourhood policy | |
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| Foreign policy | |
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| The evolution of foreign policy | |
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| The structure of policy-making | |
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| The debate over foreign policy | |
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| Russia and the world | |
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| Defence and security policy | |
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| The end of the Soviet armed forces | |
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| The great retreat | |
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| Military and security doctrines | |
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| Nuclear politics and non-proliferation | |
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| Military reform | |
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| Civil-military relations | |
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| New security paradigms | |
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| Commonwealth, community and fragmentation | |
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| The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) | |
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| Regional organisations | |
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| Dilemmas of democratisation | |
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| Problems of transition | |
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| The challenge of history | |
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| Transitional justice | |
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| Models of transition | |
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| Democracy in Russia | |
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| Problems of democracy | |
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| Regime politics | |
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| Leadership and regime change | |
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| A struggling democracy? | |
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| The Russian constitution | |
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| Notes | |
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| Select bibliography | |
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| Index | |