Political Elite and the New Russia convincingly argues that although reforms in Russia have
been initiated by those close to the President, in fact local and national elites have been the …

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 …

Graeme Gill shows why post-Soviet Russia has failed to achieve the democratic outcome
widely expected at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union, instead emerging as an …

Russian history is first and foremost a history of personalized power. As Russia startles the
international community with its assertiveness and faces both parliamentary and presidential …

The political elite in Russia is often thought to consist of three prominent groups: Putin's
inner circle, the oligarchs, and the siloviki. To these, I add a fourth, less visible but equally …

Studies the transformation of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy under Vladimir
Putin Asks what kind of political system 'Putinism'denotes Engages with the scholarly and …

When the Soviet Union collapsed, many hoped that Russia's centuries-long history of
autocratic rule might finally end. Yet today's Russia appears to be retreating from …

The fall of the Communist regime in the USSR and Russia's search for a democratic and
prosperous market-based future is one of the most compelling episodes of the end of the …

This article discusses different aspects of the political evolution of Russian President and
former Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the impact of his evolution upon the type of regime …

This article analyses the nature of the current Russian system and its future trajectory. First,
the continuity between the Yeltsin and Putin presidencies is made clear. The nature of the …