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Leading Russia: Putin in Perspective - Essays in Honour of Archie Brown (Hardcover, New)
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Leading Russia: Putin in Perspective - Essays in Honour of Archie Brown (Hardcover, New)
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Leaders and leadership continue to dominate Russia's political
development. Like his predecessors in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin
has made a crucial impact on the substance and style of Russian
politics. His efforts to use traditional tools of state power to
manage democracy and market capitalism have had mixed effects on
both. Leading Russia investigates the ambiguities and
contradictions of Putin's rule from four perspectives. The volume
first considers his leadership in the context of Russia's
convulsive historical cycle of revolutionary transformation,
breakdown, consolidation, and stagnation. The study then analyses
how normative and institutional components of democracy have fared
under Putin's regime of stronger executive control. It proceeds to
examine the strengths and weaknesses of presidential power
vis-a-vis bureaucratic, regional, and corporate groups. The volume
concludes with two assessments of the strategic direction in which
Putin is taking Russia. They explore the tensions between
bureaucratic-authoritarian trends and Putin's apparent commitment
to electoral democracy, market capitalism, and alignment with the
West. The book helps to deepen our understanding of the cultural
and institutional factors shaping Putin's leadership approach and
policy priorities. More widely, it sheds light on the complexity of
the relationship between post-communist leadership, democracy, and
economic modernization.
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