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THE RUSSIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY YABLOKO

Post-Soviet Politics

Series Editor: Neil Robinson, University of Limerick, Ireland

The last decade has seen rapid and fundamental change in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Although there has been considerable academic comment on these changes over the years, detailed empirical and theoretical research on the transformation of the post-Soviet space is only just beginning to appear as new paradigms are developed to explain change.

Post-Soviet Politics is a new series focusing on the politics of change in the states of the former USSR. The series publishes original work that blends theoretical development with empirical research on post-Soviet politics. The series includes work that progresses comparative analysis of post-Soviet politics, as well as case study research on political change in individual post-Soviet states. The series features original research monographs, thematically strong edited collections and specialized texts.

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The Russian Democratic Party Yabloko

Opposition in a Managed Democracy

DAVID WHITE
University of Birmingham, UK

First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge

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Contents

Conclusion

To Sue, Mila and Gilbert

This book would not have been completed without the valued help and support of a number of people. In particular, Edwin Bacon provided invaluable support and provided detailed and constructive criticism. Thanks also go to Kasia Wolczuk for her help in the latter stages of the project and to Mike Berry, not only for having the patience to drum the Russian language into me, but for frequently locating obscure Yabloko articles. I would also like to express my gratitude to the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) support staff, Tricia Carr and Marea Arries, for all their help, not least in sorting out my many computer problems.

My research would not have been possible without the help of Emilia Kosterina. Mila was my interpreter, assistant and khozyaika during the two periods of my fieldwork. Putting Russia to rights over a few post-interview beers and pirozhki remains one of my fondest memories of my time in Moscow. My digging of the vegetable patch at the dacha seems scant reward for Milas assistance.

I am deeply indebted to a number of CREESniks past and present, notably Bill Westwater, Sarah Whitmore, Moya Flynn, Paul Holtom, Erica Richardson, Julian Moss and John Round (an honorary CREESnik), for their friendship, support and shared evenings in the Staff Bar. Special thanks go to Bettina Renz for helping to keep me sane in the final few months of writing and ensuring that I wasnt the only person left in the office at 10.30pm. Thanks also to Sean Roberts for some last-minute proof reading.

I am also grateful to the Economic and Social Research Council for providing funding for the research and for two fieldwork trips to Russia in 2001 and 2002.

Lena Starikova of the Yabloko party in St. Petersburg was enormously helpful during my brief visit and went out of her way to arrange a full timetable of interviews. Ilya Yashin, head of Yablokos youth wing in Moscow, was very helpful in arranging meetings and interviews and also ensured I got to see some football! Others in Russia also merit thanks for providing background information and useful contacts. Andrei Ryabov of the Carnegie Moscow Centre and Vladimir Pribylovskii of the Panorama research centre were particularly helpful, the latter introducing me to the delights of the Subtropical Russia movement, a party whose time has yet to come. The vast majority of the Yabloko Duma deputies and party officials, members of other parties, political analysts and journalists who consented to be interviewed, were accommodating, cooperative and, for the most part, interested in my research.

I am eternally grateful to my parents, Norman and Margaret White, for supporting my academic endeavours, which came rather later in life than they might have expected. I regret that my mother is no longer here to witness the completion of this project.

Last, but by no means least, none of this would have been possible without the constant support and encouragement of my partner, Sue who has put up with my ramblings about Russian liberal parties, my research-induced panics and tantrums, and my many late nights at the office. Writing a book may be a solitary affair but Sue ensured I never felt like I was on my own. I must also thank my beautiful daughter, Emilia Martha, who arrived in the final year of the project and obligingly slept through the night from a very early age, allowing her daddy to tackle his work reasonably refreshed. It is to Sue and Mila (and her little brother, Gilbert Laurence, born on New Years Eve 2005) that I dedicate this book.

CEC	Central Electoral Commission
CPRF	Communist Party of the Russian Federation
CPSU	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
DemRossiya	Democratic Russia movement Demokraticheskaya Rossiya
DVR	Democratic Choice of Russia Demokraticheskii vybor Rossii
EPITsentr	EPICentre, Grigorii Yavlinskiis independent Economic and Political Centre

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