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Russian Politics: The Struggle for a New Order
Joseph L. Nogee, University of Houston
R. Judson Mitchell, University of New Orleans

ISBN-10: 0023880627
ISBN-13: 9780023880629

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 1997
Format: Paper; 200 pp
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Russian Politics offers an up-to-date treatment of Russian politics in the post-Cold War era, drawn from English language and Russian sources. Praised for their clear, jargon-free, and unbiased writing style, the authors have written this book with an undergraduate audience in mind. The authors see great potential in recent political developments in the former Soviet Union, and with this book work to convey the sense of drama embodied in those changes and their impact upon the Russian people. Russian Politics focuses on presenting and analyzing long-term factors, rather than simply recounting transitory events — to make this book as useful tomorrow as it is today.

Russian Politics is both descriptive and analytic. For example, the authors describe just the right amount of historical coverage of the Soviet period (Chs. 1 - 4) to help the reader develop a sense of context for the current Russian political system. And to help students think more analytically, there is a concluding chapter that provides a set of concepts students can use to assess the prospects for democratic change in Russia. Based upon the premise that no theoretical framework can explain the many changes that continue to take place in Russia, the authors instead present multiple causal explanations. As a result, Russian Politics is flexible enough to complement many different approaches to teaching this course.

  • Provides succinct coverage of the Soviet era to provide necessary context for students (Chs. 1 - 4).
  • Covers both domestic politics (Ch. 5) and foreign policy (Chs. 6 & 7), thus can be effectively assigned for courses that focus on government as well as those that focus on foreign policy.
  • Examines the central question of Russian politics: Will the Russian political system be democratic (Ch. 8)?
  • Concluding chapter provides a set of concepts with which the reader can assess the prospects for democratic change.



Preface.


1.  The Soviet System.

Development and Totalitarianism.

Stalin's Dictatorship and Legacy.

The Rise and Fall of Khrushchev.

The Post-Stalin Political Settlement.

Stagnation under Brezhnev.

The Andropov and Chernenko Interludes.



2.  The Beginning of Reform.

Turnover of Political Elites.

Perestroika and Glasnost.

The New Political Thinking.

Three Turning Points.



3. Perestroika on Trial.

Economic Reform.

The Yeltsin Affair and the Issue of Stalinism.

The XIX CPSU Conference and Its Aftermath.

Glasnost and the Nationalities.

The Congress of People's Deputies.

The Coercive Instrumentalities.



4.  Dissolution of the U.S.S.R.

The XXVIII CPSU Congress.

Between Scylla and Charybdis.

Resurgence of the Right.

Toward a Less Perfect Union?

The Coup.

After the Coup.



5.  Russia's Politics: The Struggle for Reform.

Yeltsin versus Parliament.

The April Referendum.

The Constitutional Assembly.

The Collapse of Constitutional Order.

The December Elections.

The Russian Constitution.

Cohabitation—Russian Style.

Chechnya and the Renewal of Crisis.



6.  Commonwealth of Independent States.

Economic Chaos.

Military Fragmentation.

The Black Sea Fleet and the Crimea.

Peacekeeping.

Institutional Developments.

Prospects.



7.  Russia's Foreign Policy.

Relations with the West.

Russia and NATO.

The Yugoslav Crisis.

Relations with the Former Soviet Republics.

Chechnya and the Crisis with the West.



8.  The Prospects for Democracy.

Russia's Political Culture.



Index.

For Russian Politics


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