The Russian word for “election”–vybor–also means “choice”. Choice was one thing that
Soviet voters did not have. Though there was no legal restriction on the number of …

Between December 2003 and March 2004, Russians went to the polls twice: first to elect the
fourth post-communist legislature, the State Duma; and second to vote, also for the fourth …

The focus of the book is on the seven rounds of parliamentary elections that have taken
place in Russia since 1993. After the chaos that followed the collapse of the USSR, a new …

Russia's March 2000 presidential election represents one step forward and two steps back
for Russian democracy. For the first time in Russia's history, power within the Kremlin has …

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Elections have been the central institution of representative government since at least the
ancient Greeks. The story of the extension of the franchise to (eventually) all adult citizens …

A distinguished collection of specialists analyzes the critical elections that ushered out the
Boris Yeltsin era in Russia and ushered in the leadership of Vladimir Putin. These …

Russia is neither a democracy nor a monolithic, one-party state, but rather an electoral
autocracy in which multiparty elections are the primary means of acquiring power. Though …

It was one of the defining features of the soviet system that it allowed no legal challenge to
party dominance. Elections took place at regular intervals; but from an early stage they were …

Russia is the world's largest country, and its politics affect the entire international community.
Formally, who exercises the power of government is decided, as in Western democracies, by …