The strong state in Russia : development and crisis / Andrei P. Tsygankov.

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Preface -- INTRODUCTION: Russia from two perspectives -- The roots of the Russian state: autocracy -- A BRIEF HISTORY: Emergence and development -- Decline and revolution -- The Soviet state -- THE TRANSITION: The Soviet breakup -- The Smuta of the 1990s -- THE REVIVAL: Putin's system -- State-led capitalism -- The managed democracy -- The normal great power -- THE CRISIS: Protest -- Ethno-nationalism -- Corruption -- Tensions with the West -- CONCLUSION: Whither the Russian state?

Tsygankov provides a succinct account of the major periods in evolution of Russia's strong state construct by reviewing the external and internal contexts of its emergence, progression, and fall in Muscovy, St. Petersburg, Soviet Union, and post-Soviet Russia with an emphasis on the last two decades. Each time a combination of these contexts was distinct thereby producing different political outcomes in Russia. The book argues that a perspective on Russia from a Western viewpoint is limited and that there has been an alternative way of thinking about the nation and its problems.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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