Building an authoritarian polity : Russia in post-Soviet times /
"Graeme Gill shows why post-Soviet Russia has failed to achieve the democratic outcome widely expected at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union, instead emerging as an authoritarian polity. He argues that the decisions of dominant elites have been central to the construction of an authoritar...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Stability and authoritarian regimes; Part I. Structuring Public Political Activity: 2. Regime and society; 3. The party system and electoral politics; Part II. Structuring the Regime: 4. Structuring institutional power; 5. Elite stabilization; Conclusion: the Putin system and the potential for regime change.