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"Drawing on both Russian and English-language sources, and providing comprehensive coverage of Putin's speeches, interviews and policy documents, this is the definitive study of the Russian leader."--Jacket.
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Table of Contents
The 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' speeches
Putin's 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
Civil society and para-constitutional representation
Regime and opposition
Putin's 'new federalism'
Segmented regionalism
Features of the '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 : Russia at the turn of the millennium.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [370]-375) and index.
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"Putin's rise to power reflected one of the most unusual political biographies in recent years."
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