Putins United Russia Party
From its inception in 2001, the United Russia party has rapidly developed into a hugely successful, organisationally complex political party and key component of power. This book provides a much needed analysis on United Russia by exploring the role of the party in the Russian political system, from 2000 to 2010. It explores the party empirically, as an impressive organisation in its own right, but also theoretically, as an independent or explanatory variable able to illuminate the larger development of dominant-power politics in Russia in the same period.
The book creates a model to understand the role of political parties in electorally based political systems and shows how United Russia conforms to this model, and, importantly, how the party also has unique features that affect its place in the political system. The book goes on to argue that, as an outcome of political changes occurring elsewhere, the United Russia party represents a reversal of the typical relationship between parties and power found in comparative literature. This has potentially far-reaching implications for our understanding of party dominance in the twenty-first century and also the sources of regime stability and instability.
Sean P. Roberts is a Visiting Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in Oslo.
BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
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This series is published on behalf of BASEES (the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies). The series comprises original, high-quality, research-level work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Russian, Soviet, post-Soviet and East European Studies in humanities and social science subjects.
1. Ukraines Foreign and Security
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2. Political Parties in the Russian
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3. Local Communities and Post
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4. Repression and Resistance in Policy, 19912000 Communist Europe
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5. Political Elites and the New Regions Russia
Anton Steen
6. Dostoevsky and the Idea of Communist Transformation Russianness
Sarah Hudspith
7. Performing Russia Folk Revival and Russian Identity
Laura J. Olson
8. Russian Transformations
Edited by Leo McCann
9. Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin
The baton and sickle
Edited by Neil Edmunds
10. State Building in Ukraine
The Ukranian parliament, 19902003
Sarah Whitmore
11. Defending Human Rights in Russia
Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and human rights commissioner, 19692003
Emma Gilligan
12. Small-Town Russia
Postcommunist livelihoods and identities: a portrait of the intelligentsia in Achit, Bednodemyanovsk and Zubtsov, 19992000
Anne White
13. Russian Society and the Orthodox Church
Religion in Russia after communism
Zoe Knox
14. Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age
The word as image
Stephen Hutchings
15. Between Stalin and Hitler
Class war and race war on the Dvina, 194046
Geoffrey Swain
16. Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe
The Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction of the changes 198898
Rajendra A. Chitnis
17. The Legacy of Soviet Dissent
Dissidents, democratisation and radical nationalism in Russia
Robert Horvath
18. Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 19002001
Screening the word
Edited by Stephen Hutchings and Anat Vernitski
19. Russia as a Great Power
Dimensions of security under Putin
Edited by Jakob Hedenskog, Vilhelm Konnander, Bertil Nygren, Ingmar Oldberg and Christer Pursiainen
20. Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940
Truth, justice and memory
George Sanford
21. Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia
Philip Boobbyer
22. The Limits of Russian Democratisation
Emergency powers and states of emergency
Alexander N. Domrin
23. The Dilemmas of Destalinisation
A social and cultural history of reform in the Khrushchev era
Edited by Polly Jones
24. News Media and Power in Russia
Olessia Koltsova
25. Post-Soviet Civil Society
Democratization in Russia and the Baltic States
Anders Uhlin
26. The Collapse of Communist Power in Poland
Jacqueline Hayden
27. Television, Democracy and Elections in Russia
Sarah Oates
28. Russian Constitutionalism
Historical and contemporary development
Andrey N. Medushevsky
29. Late Stalinist Russia
Society between reconstruction and reinvention
Edited by Juliane Frst
30. The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia
Konstantin Axenov, Isolde Brade and Evgenij Bondarchuk
31. Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 192040
From Red Square to the Left Bank
Ludmila Stern
32. The Germans of the Soviet Union
Irina Mukhina
33. Re-constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region
The Donbas in transition
Edited by Adam Swain
34. Chechnya Russias War on Terror
John Russell
35. The New Right in the New Europe
Czech transformation and right-wing politics, 19892006
Sen Hanley
36. Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe
Edited by Alexander Wll and Harald Wydra
37. Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union
Russias power, oligarchs profits and Ukraines missing energy policy, 19952006
Margarita M. Balmaceda
38. Peopling the Russian Periphery
Borderland colonization in Eurasian history
Edited by Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Abby Schrader and Willard Sunderland
39. Russian Legal Culture before and after Communism
Criminal justice, politics and the public sphere
Frances Nethercott
40. Political and Social Thought in Post-Communist Russia
Axel Kaehne
41. The Demise of the Soviet Communist Party
Atsushi Ogushi
42. Russian Policy towards China and Japan
The Eltsin and Putin periods
Natasha Kuhrt
43. Soviet Karelia
Politics, planning and terror in Stalins Russia, 19201939
Nick Baron
44. Reinventing Poland
Economic and political transformation and evolving national identity
Edited by Martin Myant and Terry Cox
45. The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 192024
Soviet workers and the new communist elite
Simon Pirani
