• ISBN13: 9780333948576
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac
• Publication Date: April 6, 2001
• Pages: 352
• Original Price: GBP 19.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1000 grams

Still the world's largest state, Russia has been making a complex and uneven transition to a postcommunist system that has strong elements of authoritarianism as well as democracy. After an introduction that sets out the context of change, a series of chapters consider the main elements of the contemporary political system, the main areas of policy, and some of the most contentious issues in Russia under Putin. A conclusion places the Russian experience within the wider pattern of democratization.

STEPHEN WHITE is Professor of Politics, University of Glasgow. - ALEX PRAVDA is Director of the Russian and East European Centre and Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford. - ZVI GITELMAN is Professor of Political Science and Preston Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.