Power and Policy in Putins Russia
This book provides a retrospective analysis of Putins eight years as president between 2000 and 2008. An international group of leading specialists examine Putins leadership in an informed and balanced manner. The authors are drawn from Russia itself, as well as from Europe, America and Australasia. Coverage includes general analysis of the Putin presidency, the ideology underlying the thinking of the regime, issues of institutional development including coverage of parties, parliament and elections, developments in the federal system, corruption and changes in the configuration of the elite. The impact of energy on changes in political economy provides the background to an assessment of Russias re-emergence as a great power in international affairs, accompanied by analysis of the difficulties in Russias relations with its former Soviet neighbours and the European Union. The authors examine the interaction between power and policy, and draw some conclusions about the dynamics of Putins system of government and thus of the fate of Russia.
This book was published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.
Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury and an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. He has published widely on Soviet, Russian and post-communist affairs.
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CONTENTS
Richard Sakwa
Alfred B. Evans, Jr
Vladimir Gelman
Ian McAllister & Stephen White
Thomas Remington
Elena Chebankova
Leslie Holmes
Oxana Gaman-Golutvina
Peter Rutland
Andrei Kazantsev
Angela E. Stent
Fyodor Lukyanov
A series edited by Terry Cox
University of Glasgow
The Routledge Europe-Asia Studies Series focuses on the history and current political, social and economic affairs of the countries of the former communist bloc of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Asia. As well as providing contemporary analyses it explores the economic, political and social transformation of these countries and the changing character of their relationships with the rest of Europe and Asia.
Challenging Communism in Eastern Europe
1956 and its Legacy
Edited by Terry Cox
Globalisation, Freedom and the Media after Communism
The Past as Future
Edited by Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova
Power and Policy in Putins Russia
Edited by Richard Sakwa
ELENA CHEBANKOVA obtained her doctorate from Kings College, Cambridge, and in October 2006 took up a Junior Research Fellowship at Linacre College, Oxford. She is currently working on the political philosophy of Russias federalism and the evolution of Russian civil society. Address: Wolfson College, Cambridge University, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB, UK. Email: eak36@cam.ac.uk.
ALFRED B. EVANS,JR is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at California State University, Fresno. He has published many journal articles and book chapters. He is the author of Soviet MarxismLeninism and is a co-editor of three books, the most recent of which is Russian Civil Society: A Critical Assessment. From 1999 to 2004 he directed seven projects funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State, hosting groups of Russian professionals who visited Central California. His current research focuses on civil society and ideological trends in contemporary Russia. Address: Department of Political Science, California State University, Fresno, McKee-Fisk Building, 2225 East San Ramon Avenue, Mail Stop MF 19, Fresno, CA 937408029, USA. Email: evansalca@comcast.net.
OXANA GAMAN-GOLUTVINA is a Professor at the Moscow State Institute for International Affairs (MGIMO), and also works at the Higher School of Economics and the Russian Academy for Public Administration. She graduated from the Philosophy faculty of Kiev State University, and took her doctorate at Moscow State University and the Russian Academy for Public Administration. She is vice president of the Russian Association of Political Science; chair of the National Research Committee for Political Elites; and a member of the Russian Academy for Political Science. Her research interests include the study of political elites, political leadership, political transformations, administrative reforms, political management, and political culture. She has published widely on these issues, including Political Elites of Russia: Stages of Historical Evolution (Moscow, Rosspen, 2006), Parliamentary Representation in Russia and Germany: History and Contemporary Issues (Moscow, 2006); The Most Influential People in Russia: Political and Economical Elites of the Russian Regions (Moscow, 2004), and State Bureaucracy in the Russian Empire (Moscow, 1997). Address: Moscow State Institute for International Affairs (MGIMO), Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: ogaman@mail.ru.
VLADIMIR GELMAN is a Professor in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, European University at St Petersburg, and has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the Central European University, Budapest. He is the author and/or editor of 17 books in Russian and in English, and numerous scholarly articles published in international journals and edited volumes. His research interests include the study of Russian and post-Soviet politics in theoretical and comparative perspective. Address: Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, European University at St Petersburg, 3 Gagarinskaya St., St Petersburg 191187, Russia. Email: gelman@eu.spb.ru.
LESLIE HOLMES is a Professor of Political Science and Deputy Director of the Contemporary Europe Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. His latest authored book is Rotten States? Corruption,Post-Communism and Neoliberalism (Duke University Press, 2006); more recently, he edited and contributed to Terrorism, Organised Crime and Corruption: Networks and Linkages (Edward Elgar, 2007). He was President of the International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) 20002005 and of the Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies (AACPCS) 20052007. Address: The School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. Email:
