Russian Politics and Society: An Introduction Book

	List of maps
	List of boxes
	Russia at a glance
	Preface
Pt. I	The making of the Russian Federation	1
1	Introduction: transforming Russia	3
	Marketisation and democratisation	4
	The interrelationship, sequencing and pace of marketisation and democratisation	8
	Democracy without democrats?	9
	Marketisation without capitalists?	14
	The oligarchs, clans and state capitalism	17
	The legacy of the Imperial Russian and Soviet states	21
2	Gorbachev and perestroika: reforming the unreformable?	30
	Why did Gorbachev launch perestroika?	31
	Democratisation and openness	36
	The USSR: national versus soviet identities	39
	Economic perestroika	40
	The 'new thinking' in foreign policy	43
	Authoritarianism versus disintegration, 1990-1991	46
	The August 1991 coup and the collapse of the USSR	51
3	Russia and the Russians	56
	Locating Russia and the Russians	57
	Religion and the Russian state	62
	Russia between East and West	65
	The importance of culture?	69
	Globalisation and Russia	71
	A new state ideology and the Russian idea	73
Pt. II	The making of the Russian state	81
4	The president and the parliament	83
	Escalating conflict between president and parliament, 1990-1993	84
	The struggle for a new constitution	88
	The Federal Assembly	92
	The president	97
	The prime minister, the government and the presidential administration	99
	The Yeltsin presidency	103
	The beginning of the post-Yeltsin era	110
5	The Russian Federation	115
	Creating the Russian Federation	117
	Moscow and the republics and regions	124
	Ruling or governing Russia's republics and regions?	129
	Putin and the assertion of federal authority	136
6	The judiciary and human rights	144
	From party rule to constitutionalism	145
	The Russian justice system	149
	Human and civil rights and freedoms	156
7	The state in Uniform	163
	Civil-military relations	164
	The creation of a professional army	172
	Living conditions and corruption	174
	Regionalisation and the armed forces	177
	Parallel 'power-wielding structures'	179
	Putin and the remilitarisation of Russia?	182
Pt. III	The making of Russian democracy	189
8	Democracy and the Russian people	191
	Civil society	192
	The development of the party system	193
	Russian political parties	196
	What do Russians believe?	204
	Democracy without women is not democracy!	208
9	The mass media	216
	The mass media and democratisation	217
	The mass media and marketisation	224
	Advertising in Russia	230
	President Putin and the mass media	233
Pt. IV	Reforming Russia	241
10	Russian foreign policy: from superpower to great power	243
	Russia after the Cold War	246
	The making of Russian foreign policy	248
	Russia and the former Soviet Union (FSU)	253
	The evolution of Russian foreign policy	255
11	Reforming the economy	268
	From RSFSR to RF: the initial conditions	269
	Shock therapy, 1992-1993	274
	The coming Russian boom and the 1998 crisis	280
	The Russian economy after 1998	287
12	The Russian people: degraded and insulted?	293
	The demographic crisis	295
	The health of the people	299
	The ecological crisis	304
	Russian society: the rich and the poor	306
	How do Russians survive?	312
	Trade unions and workers	314
13	Conclusion	321
	Putin: from KGB functionary to president	322
	The rise of President Putin	324
	The continuing creation of the Russian state	326
	And finally ...	333
App. 1	The dynamics of State Duma elections, 1993-1999	335
App. 2	The State Duma committees	336
App. 3	The federal organs of executive power of the Russian Federation	337
App. 4	The presidential administration of the Russian Federation	340
App. 5	Russia's republics	341
App. 6	President Putin's Government Cabinet and Security Council (May 2000)	345
	Abbreviations and acronyms	347
	Biographies	350
	Chronology	366
	Bibliography	392
	Index	415