Russia And Democracy

Author : M. Steven Fish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139446853

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Democracy Derailed in Russia by M. Steven Fish Pdf

Why has democracy failed to take root in Russia? After shedding the shackles of Soviet rule, some countries in the postcommunist region undertook lasting democratization. Yet Russia did not. Russia experienced dramatic political breakthroughs in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but it subsequently failed to maintain progress toward democracy. In this book, M. Steven Fish offers an explanation for the direction of regime change in post-Soviet Russia. Relying on cross-national comparative analysis as well as on in-depth field research in Russia, Fish shows that Russia's failure to democratize has three causes: too much economic reliance on oil, too little economic liberalization, and too weak a national legislature. Fish's explanation challenges others that have attributed Russia's political travails to history, political culture, or to 'shock therapy' in economic policy. The book offers a theoretically original and empirically rigorous explanation for one of the most pressing political problems of our time.

Author : Tomila V. Lankina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316512678

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The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia by Tomila V. Lankina Pdf

Lankina traces the origins of Russia's inequalities over the past two centuries from the Tsarist institution of estates, through communism, to the present day.

Author : Gabriel de Wesselitsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015022393535

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Russia & Democracy by Gabriel de Wesselitsky Pdf

Author : Michael McFaul,Nikolay Petrov,Andrei Ryabov
Publisher : Carnegie Endowment
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870032905

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Between Dictatorship and Democracy by Michael McFaul,Nikolay Petrov,Andrei Ryabov Pdf

For hundreds of years, dictators have ruled Russia. Do they still? In the late 1980s, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev launched a series of political reforms that eventually allowed for competitive elections, the emergence of an independent press, the formation of political parties, and the sprouting of civil society. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, these proto-democratic institutions endured in an independent Russia. But did the processes unleashed by Gorbachev and continued under Russian President Boris Yeltsin lead eventually to liberal democracy in Russia? If not, what kind of political regime did take hold in post-Soviet Russia? And how has Vladimir Putin's rise to power influenced the course of democratic consolidation or the lack thereof? Between Dictatorship and Democracy seeks to give a comprehensive answer to these fundamental questions about the nature of Russian politics.

Author : Adam Przeworski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107053397

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Democracy in a Russian Mirror by Adam Przeworski Pdf

This book examines the current state and the prospects for democracy in Russia in the light of the experience of existing democracies. Posing several challenges to our understanding of democracy, thirteen contributors argue some of the central questions vital to understanding the conditions of emergence and survival of successful democracies.

Author : Metta Spencer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739144725

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The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy by Metta Spencer Pdf

In The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, Metta Spencer recounts the political and military changes that have occurred in Russia up to mid-2010. Using hundreds of interviews she conducted with officials, dissidents, and liberal intellectuals, she describes the various groups, forces, and individuals that worked to liberalize the totalitarian Soviet Union and its fellow nations behind the Iron Curtain, and which ultimately brought about the dissolution of those repressive governments. Spencer identifies four political orientations to describe Soviet society: 'Sheep,' ordinary citizens who accepted the undemocratic regime they lived in without challenging it; 'Dinosaurs,' hard-line Communist officials; 'Termites,' including Mikhail Gorbachev and his advisers and government; and 'Barking Dogs,' a few hundred dissidents who made 'a lot of noise' protesting, hoping to awaken a grass-roots demand for democracy. The strange rivalry between the Termites and Barking Dogs would ultimately doom perestroika. Spencer's research dispels the widely-held perception that US President Ronald Reagan 'won' the Cold War by standing firm until the Soviet Union 'blinked first.' There are vitally important lessons to be learned from the Soviet period, about how to assist citizens of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes around the world. The irony is that transnational civil society organizations, major sources of the progress in Soviet Russia, are still needed today in authoritarian Russia, under Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, for totalitarianism remains a potential social trap. In The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, Metta Spencer suggests new ways of building urgently-needed social capital in today's Russia, where democracy has yet to flourish.

Author : Sarah Oates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134178476

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Television, Democracy and Elections in Russia by Sarah Oates Pdf

Sarah Oates gives a detailed examination on a central theme in political science: the relationship between democracy and the mass media. This significant book contains a wealth of information and data, including: public opinion surveys, content analysis of television news, focus groups and in-depth interviews to examine why political parties and the mass media failed so spectacularly to aid in the construction of a democratic system in Russia. The analysis presents compelling evidence that television helped to tune out democracy as it served as a tool for leaders rather than a conduit of information in the service of the electorate or parties. In addition, focus groups and surveys show that the Russian audience are often more comfortable with authority rather than truth in television coverage. Within this framework, this fascinating work presents the colourful history of parties, elections and television during one of the most critical eras in Russian history and captures a particularly significant epoch in contemporary Russian politics.

Author : Richard Sakwa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139494915

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The Crisis of Russian Democracy by Richard Sakwa Pdf

The view that Russia has taken a decisive shift towards authoritarianism may be premature, but there is no doubt that its democracy is in crisis. In this original and dynamic analysis of the fundamental processes shaping contemporary Russian politics, Richard Sakwa applies a new model based on the concept of Russia as a dual state. Russia's constitutional state is challenged by an administrative regime that subverts the rule of law and genuine electoral competitiveness. This has created a situation of permanent stalemate: the country is unable to move towards genuine pluralist democracy but, equally, its shift towards full-scale authoritarianism is inhibited. Sakwa argues that the dual state could be transcended either by strengthening the democratic state or by the consolidation of the arbitrary power of the administrative system. The future of the country remains open.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political parties
ISBN : 0817992332

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The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy: Parties, Personalities, and Programs by Anonim Pdf

The demise of communism in the Soviet Union could not have occurred without the activism of dissident, anticommunist leaders who created and nourished a climate in which ordinary Russians gained the courage to stand up to and defeat communist control. But with communism ousted, what new form of government and what new leaders will emerge in Russia, a society that has never known democracy? Michael McFaul, a research associate at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, and Sergei Markov, an assistant professor at Moscow State University, interviewed anti-communist leaders and collected the documents of anticommunist parties in the months preceding and immediately following the August 1991 attempted coup d'etat. To examine the range of the political spectrum in Russia, they also talked to procommunist leaders who emerged to oppose Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, nationalist and anti-Semitic leaders of movements such as Pamyat', labor unions, Christian movements, and organizations opposed to the division of the Soviet Union. What emerges is a kaleidoscope of leaders with distinct ideas on key issues facing Russia: how to reform the economy, what role the market should play in a new economic system, how to respond to growing demands from non-Russian republics for independence, what leaders can be trusted, what Russia's relations with the West should be, and what form of government would be best for Russia. Gathered here are essays offering historical background on the parties, selected interviews with prominent members of these groups, and important party documents. Whether democracy will flourish in Russia remains in question. The parties profiled here, actively involved in the debate over Russia's future, offer readers an insider's look into contemporary Russian politics.

Author : Graeme Gill,Roger D. Markwick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191528880

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Russia's Stillborn Democracy? by Graeme Gill,Roger D. Markwick Pdf

The decade and a half since Gorbachev came to power has been a tumultuous time for Russia. It has seen the expectations raised by perestroika dashed, the collapse of the Soviet superpower, and the emergence of a new Russian state claiming to base itself on democratic, market principles. It has seen a political system shattered by a president turning tanks against the parliament, and then that president configuring the new political structure to give himself overwhelming power. These upheavals took place against a backdrop of social dislocations as the Russian people were ravaged by the effects of economic shock therapy. This book explains how these momentous changes came about, and in particular why political elites were able to fashion the new political system largely independent of the wishes of the populace at large. It was this relationship between powerful elites and weak civil society forces which has led to Russian democracy under Yeltsin being still born.

Author : Graeme J. Gill,Graeme Gill,Roger D. Markwick
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199240418

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Russia's Stillborn Democracy? by Graeme J. Gill,Graeme Gill,Roger D. Markwick Pdf

The decade and a half since Gorbachev came to power has been a tumultuous time for Russia. It has seen the expectations raised by perestroika dashed, the collapse of the Soviet superpower, and the emergence of a new Russian state claiming to base itself on democratic, market principles. It has seen a political system shattered by a president turning tanks against the parliament, and then that president configuring the new political structure to give himself overwhelming power. Theseupheavals took place against a backdrop of social dislocations as the Russian people were ravaged by the effects of economic shock therapy.This book explains how these momentous changes came about, and in particular why political elites were able to fashion the new political system largely independent of the wishes of the populace at large. It was this relationship between powerful elites and weak civil society forces which has led to Russian democracy under Yeltsin being still born.

Author : A. J. SACK
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE BIRTH OF THE RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY by A. J. SACK Pdf

Author : Alexander Wöll,Harald Wydra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134089079

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Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe by Alexander Wöll,Harald Wydra Pdf

In the absence of democratic state institutions, eastern European countries were considered to possess only myths of democracy. Working on the premise that democracy is not only an institutional arrangement but also a civilisational project, this book argues that mythical narratives help understanding the emergence of democracy without ‘democrats’. Examining different national traditions as well as pre-communist and communist narratives, myths are seen as politically fabricated ‘programmes of truth’ that form and sustain the political imagination. Appearing as cultural, literary, or historical resources, myths amount to ideology in narrative form, which actors use in political struggles for the sake of achieving social compliance and loyalty with the authority of new political forms. Drawing on a wide range of case studies including Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, this book argues that narratives about the past are not simply ‘legacies’ of former regimes but have actively shaped representations and meanings of democracy in the region. Taking different theoretical and methodological approaches, the power of myth is explored for issues such as leadership, collective identity-formation, literary representation of heroic figures, cultural symbolism in performative art as well as on the constitution of legitimacy and civic identity in post-communist democracies.

Author : Nicolai N. Petro
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0674750012

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The Rebirth of Russian Democracy by Nicolai N. Petro Pdf

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Eric Blanc
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004449930

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Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917) by Eric Blanc Pdf

This groundbreaking comparative study rediscovers the socialists of Russia’s borderlands, upending conventional interpretations of working-class politics and the Russian Revolution. Researched in eight languages, Revolutionary Social Democracy challenges long-held assumptions by scholars and activists about the dynamics of revolutionary change.