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100 1 _aMcFaul, Michael,
_d1963-
_eauthor.
_927818
245 1 0 _aRussia's unfinished revolution :
_bpolitical change from Gorbachev to Putin /
_cMichael McFaul.
246 3 0 _aPolitical change from Gorbachev to Putin
264 1 _aIthaca, N.Y. :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2001]
264 4 _c©2001
300 _a1 online resource (xv, 383 pages)
336 _aText
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aComputermedien
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_2rdamedia
338 _aOnline Resource
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_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tThe Revolutionary Transition from Communism to Democracy: A Model ---
_tThe Gorbachev Era, 1985-1991 ---
_tGorbachev's Design for Reforming Soviet Political Institutions ---
_tThe End of the Soviet Union ---
_tThe First Russian Republic, 1991-1993 ---
_tInstitutional Design in the First Russian Republic ---
_tThe Failure of the First Russian Republic ---
_tThe Emergence of the Second Russian Republic, 1993-1996 ---
_tDesigning the Political Institutions of the Second Republic ---
_tTransitional Constitutionalism ---
_tTransitional Electoralism ---
_tThe Future of Russian Democracy ---
_tThe Quality of Russian Democracy ---
_tThe Stability of Partial Democracy.
520 _aFor centuries, dictators ruled Russia. Tsars and Communist Party chiefs were in charge for so long some analysts claimed Russians had a cultural predisposition for authoritarian leaders. Yet, as a result of reforms initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, new political institutions have emerged that now require election of political leaders and rule by constitutional procedures. Michael McFaul traces Russia's tumultuous political history from Gorbachev's rise to power in 1985 through the 1999 resignation of Boris Yeltsin in favor of Vladimir Putin. McFaul divides his account of the post-Soviet country into three periods: the Gorbachev era (1985-1991), the First Russian Republic (1991-1993), and the Second Russian Republic (1993-present). The first two were, he believes, failures -- failed institutional emergence or failed transitions to democracy. By contrast, new democratic institutions did emerge in the third era, though not the institutions of a liberal democracy. McFaul contends that any explanation for Russia's successes in shifting to democracy must also account for its failures. The Russian/Soviet case, he says, reveals the importance of forging social pacts; the efforts of Russian elites to form alliances failed, leading to two violent confrontations and a protracted transition from communism to democracy. -- Description from http://carnegieendowment.org (April 19, 2012).
542 _nAll rights reserved.
600 1 0 _aGorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich,
_d1931-2022.
_927819
600 1 0 _aPutin, Vladimir Vladimirovich,
_d1952-
_91295
651 0 _aRussia (Federation)
_xPolitics and government
_y1991-
_95751
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xPolitics and government
_y1985-1991.
_927820
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xPolitics and government
_y1991-
_927821
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xEconomic policy
_y1985-1991.
_927822
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xEconomic policy
_y1991-
_927823
650 0 _zRussia (Federation)
_91296
650 0 _zSoviet Union.
_95245
655 4 _aElectronic books.
733 0 _tACLS Humanities E-Book.
_nURL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
830 0 _aACLS Humanities E-Book.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb40039
_zVolltext
942 _cEB
500 _aE-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal
653 _aDemocracy
653 _aDemocracy
041 _aeng
500 _aAmerican Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
999 _c63568
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