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| List of Illustrative Material | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Russia: Continuity and Change | |
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| Studying Russian Government and Politics | |
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| Why we study Russia | |
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| How we study Russia | |
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| Views of Russia and its politics | |
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| Critical thinking about Russia | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Roots: The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union | |
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| Early Russian states | |
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| Russia as an empire | |
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| The revolutions | |
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| The development of the Soviet state | |
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| The Soviet Union during the Cold War | |
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| Critical thinking about Russia's history | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Soviet Transformation, 1985-91 | |
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| The beginning of the transformation | |
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| Perestroika and glasnost | |
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| Unintended consequences | |
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| Critical thinking about the Soviet transformation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Institutions and Elections | |
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| The Executive Branch | |
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| Key developments | |
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| The president of the Russian Federation | |
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| The Government (Cabinet of Ministers) of the Russian Federation | |
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| The subjects of the Russian Federation | |
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| The transformation of the executive branch | |
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| Critical thinking about the executive branch | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Legislative Branch | |
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| Key developments | |
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| The State Duma | |
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| The Federation Council | |
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| Critical thinking about the legislative branch | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Judicial Branch and Justice Administration | |
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| Key developments | |
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| The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation | |
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| The Supreme Court | |
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| The Supreme Arbitration Court | |
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| The Russian Criminal Code | |
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| The Prosecutor's Office | |
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| The Ministry of Justice | |
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| Law enforcement: The Ministry for Internal Affairs | |
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| Critical thinking about Russia's judicial branch and justice administration | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Political Behavior, Participation, And Communication | |
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| Political Parties | |
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| Key developments | |
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| On Russian political terminology | |
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| Major political parties | |
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| Critical thinking about political parties | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Presidential and Parliamentary Elections | |
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| Key developments | |
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| Parliamentary elections | |
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| Presidential elections | |
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| Critical thinking about elections in Russia | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Political Communications and Mobilization | |
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| Key developments | |
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| The media today | |
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| Strategies of political communication and mobilization | |
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| Critical thinking about political communication and mobilization | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Russian Policies | |
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| Economic and Business Policies | |
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| Key developments | |
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| Government regulation of the economy | |
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| Economic strategies | |
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| Critical thinking about Russia's economic policies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Social Policies: Health, Education, and Housing | |
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| Key developments | |
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| Government institutions | |
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| The National Priority Projects | |
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| Critical thinking about social policies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Foreign Policy | |
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| A brief review of history and institutions | |
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| Key developments | |
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| Foreign policy concepts | |
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| Regional policies | |
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| Critical thinking about foreign policy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Defense and Security Policies | |
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| Key developments | |
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| The commander in chief | |
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| The Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation | |
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| Military policies | |
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| The Federal Security Service | |
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| The External intelligence Service | |
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| Counterterrorism policies | |
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| Critical thinking about defense and security policies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| A brief review | |
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| The economy and economic policies | |
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| Social policies and dependency | |
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| Foreign policy and security | |
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| Government and participation | |
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| Forecasts | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |