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001 2007008402
003 DLC
005 20081212110325.0
008 070226s2008 enka b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aDK510.763$b.S247 2008
082 00 $a947.086092$aB$222
100 1 $aSakwa, Richard.
245 10 $aPutin :$bRussia's choice /$cRichard Sakwa.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$cc2008.
300 $axii, p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [370]-375) and index.
505 0 $aThe path to power -- The unlikely making of a leader -- Operation successor -- Ideas and choices -- Who is Mister Putin? -- Normality, normalcy and normalisation -- Russia at the turn of the millennium -- Planning for the future -- The state of the nation -- Putins path -- Building the Putin Bloc -- Putin and the people -- Leadership and style -- National democracy and Russia's "third way" -- Parties, elections and the succession -- Development of the party system -- Elections and electoral legislation -- Parliamentary realignment -- Putin, parties and government -- The Putin succession -- Regime, state and society -- State and regime -- The "liquidation of the oligarchs as a class" -- Freedom of speech and the media -- Judicial reform and human rights -- Bureaucracy, incorporation and opposition -- Bureaucracy and corruption -- Society and para-constitutional representation -- Regime and opposition -- Putin's "new federalism" -- Segmented regionalism -- Putin's "new federalism" -- State reconstitution and federalism -- Reforging the nation -- National images and state symbols -- Social aspects of national identity -- Chechnya : tombstone or crucible of Russian power? -- Russian capitalism -- Entering the market -- Models of capitalism : "state corporatism" -- State, economy and society -- Putin's "new realism" in foreign policy -- Towards a new realism -- Features of the new realism -- The new realism in practice -- Conclusion : the power of contradiction -- Public politics -- Beyond transition -- The power of contradiction -- Appendix: the millennium manifesto.
651 0 $aRussia (Federation)$xPolitics and government$y1991-
600 10 $aPutin, Vladimir Vladimirovich,$d1952-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0712/2007008402.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0731/2007008402-d.html