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050 00 $aJS6102$b.O77 1995
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100 1 $aOrttung, Robert W.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94095509
245 10 $aFrom Leningrad to St. Petersburg :$bdemocratization in a Russian city /$cRobert W. Orttung.
246 3 $aFrom Leningrad to Saint Petersburg
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c1995.
300 $axiii, 332 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [277]-286) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tUnderstanding Democratization --$g2.$tRegime Hard-Liners: The Leningrad Communist Party Leadership --$g3.$tRegime Reformers: The Democratic Platform --$g4.$tOpposition Radicals: The Democratic Union --$g5.$tOpposition Moderates: The Leningrad Popular Front --$g6.$tThe Significance of the City Soviet and the 1990 Electoral Law --$g7.$tThe Strategy of the Hard-Liners --$g8.$tThe Strategy of the Moderate Democratic Opposition --$g9.$tThe New Electoral Law and Its Consequences --$g10.$tThe Opposition Moderates Take Power --$g11.$tThe Leningrad Communist Party Leadership and the New Democratic Government --$g12.$tThe Rise and Fall of the Extreme Hard-Liners --$g13.$tThe Collapse of the Local Regime Reformers --$g14.$tThe Evolution of St. Petersburg's Democratic Institutions after the Coup --$g15.$tThe Spring 1994 Elections and Political Parties in St. Petersburg --$g16.$tConclusion --$tAppendix A Structure of the Leningrad Soviet --$tAppendix B Structure of the Obkom --
505 80 $tAppendix C Initial Structure of the Mayor's Office --$tAppendix D Government of St. Petersburg.
520 $aFrom Leningrad to St. Petersburg describes the evolution of local democratic institutions from 1987 to 1994 in Russia's most important city outside Moscow. Once the birthplace of the Bolshevik revolution, St. Petersburg now plays a central role in the struggle to overcome the communist legacy and establish democracy in Russia. This invaluable book is the first to recount the full sweep of events in this dramatic period.
520 8 $aProfessor Orttung describes the battles within the local branch of the Communist Party, its alliances with nationalist groups as it attempted to preserve its power before the 1991 putsch, and the evolution of the groups that eventually overthrew it. He goes on to describe the difficulties encountered by those groups in setting up a democratic government and pays particular attention to how their institutional choices have shaped the progress toward democratic consolidation.
520 8 $aThe book also traces the emergence of various opposition parties in the post-communist era, including the still-thriving nationalist and communist opponents of reform.
651 0 $aSaint Petersburg (Russia)$xPolitics and government.
650 0 $aDemocracy$zRussia (Federation)$zSaint Petersburg.
650 0 $aPost-communism$zRussia (Federation)$zSaint Petersburg.
650 0 $aLocal elections$zRussia (Federation)$zSaint Petersburg$xHistory.
852 00 $bleh$hJS6102$i.O77 1995