Russian Politics: The Post-Soviet PhaseThis book analyzes the evolution and operation of political institutions in Russia from its emergence from the shadow of the disintegrating Union of Soviet Socialist Republic through its first decade as an independent state. Emphasizing structures and problems, the main topics treated are constitutional development, presidential-parliamentary relations, electoral politics, the party system, and the search for a workable federalism, including descriptions of principal people and events. |
Contents
From Open Politics to Collapse | 25 |
Russia and the Near Abroad | 51 |
Operation of the Major Political Institutions | 133 |
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