Russia--lost in transition : the Yeltsin and Putin legacies /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shevt︠s︡ova, Lilii︠a︡, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, [2007]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Boris Yeltsin : a revolutionary who preserved tradition
  • How will Yeltsin go down in history?
  • The coming of Vladimir Putin : a new regime to preserve an old system
  • Imitation democracy
  • Can you sit and run at the same time?
  • Pragmatists versus idealists
  • Should I stay or should I go?
  • The siloviki in power
  • Oligarchy as myth and reality
  • Liberal technocrats as an adornment of the state
  • The triumph of bureaucratic capitalism
  • Something new : a nuclear petro-power
  • The state shakes off its social responsibilities
  • What is behind Russia's new assertiveness?
  • Is Russia ready to set sail under her own steam?
  • How can we learn to be neighbors?
  • Russia and Europe : condemned to live together
  • Russia and the United States : in search of new paradigm
  • What went wrong?
  • Bumps in the road
  • The Bush-Putin legacy
  • Unstable stability, or On shooting yourself in the foot
  • What might detonate an explosion?
  • Russia : going nowhere fast
  • Can the West help the Russian liberal project?
  • How to stop suicidal statecraft
  • Paradoxes and hopes.