Russian Politics Today

Stability and Fragility
Herausgeber: Wengle, Susanne A

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility provides an accessible and nuanced introduction to contemporary Russian politics at a time of increasing uncertainty. Using the theme of stability versus fragility as its overarching framework, this innovative textbook explores the forces that shape Russia's politics, economy, and society. The volume provides up-to-date coverage of core themes - Russia's strong presidency, its weak party system, the role of civil society, and its dependence on oil and gas revenues - alongside path-breaking chapters on the politics of race, class, gender, sexuality, and the environment. An international and diverse team of experts presents the most comprehensive available account of the evolution of Russian politics in the post-Soviet era, providing the tools for interpreting the past and the present while also offering a template for understanding future developments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 186mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1315g
• ISBN-13: 9781009165914
• ISBN-10: 1009165917
• Artikelnr.: 64050683

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface Susanne Wengle; 1. Stability and fragility in
contemporary Russian politics Susanne Wengle; Part I. Political
Institutions: 2. Russia's superpresidency Jody LaPorte; 3. Party politics
and voting in Russia John Ora Reuter and David Szakonyi; 4. Law, legal
enforcement, and the courts Lauren McCarthy; 5. The pendulum of
central-regional relations in Russia Evgenia Olimpieva; 6. The politics of
race, racism, and anti-racism Nikolay Zakharov; 7. Politics of gender and
sexuality Alexander Sasha Kondakov and Alexandra Novitskaya; 8. The foreign
policy of an aspiring great power Andrei P. Tsygankov; Part II. Political
Economy: 9. Property rights: forging the institutional foundations for
Russia's market economy Jordan Gans-Morse; 10. Economic policies and
Russia's global economic integration Laura Solanko; 11. Russia's oil and
gas industry: Soviet inheritance and post-Soviet evolution Mikhail Strokan
and Rudra Sil; 12. Russia's oligarchs Stanislav Markus; 13. Inequality and
social policy in Russia Ilya Matveev and Sarah Wilson-Sokhey; 14. Russian
labor: between stability and stagnation Stephen Crowley; 15. Every-day
economic life on Russia's margins Ann-Mari Sätre and Leo Granberg; Part
III. State and Society: 16. Russia's conservative forces and the state: a
dynamic balancing act Marlene Laruelle; 17. The Russian media Scott
Gehlbach, Tetyana Lokot, and Anton Shirikov; 18. Civil society in Russia:
compliance with and resistance to the state Natalia Forrat; 19. Protest in
Russia: discovering power Sam Greene; 20. The politics of the environment
in Russia: extraction, climate change, and indigenous rights in the Russian
arctic Laura A. Henry; 21. Ethnicity and religion in Russia ¿ener Aktürk;
Index.