Research Catalog

Title

Popular choice and managed democracy : the Russian elections of 1999 and 2000 / Timothy J. Colton, Michael McFaul.

Author

Colton, Timothy J., 1947-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

McFaul, Michael, 1963-

Description

x, 317 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Despite financial crisis, a national security emergency in Chechnya, and cabinet instability, Russian voters unexpectedly supported the status quo. The elected lawmakers prepared to cooperate with the executive branch, a gift that had eluded President Boris Yeltsin since he imposed a post-Soviet constitution by referendum in 1993. When Yeltsin retired six months in advance of schedule, the presidential mantle went to Vladimir Putin - a career KGB officer who fused new and old ways of doing politics. Putin was easily elected President in his own right." "This book demonstrates key trends in an extinct superpower, a troubled country in whose stability, modernization, and openness to the international community the West still has a huge stake."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Elections > Russia (Federation)
• Geschichte 1999
• Political campaigns > Russia (Federation)
• Political parties > Russia (Federation)
• Presidents > Russia (Federation) > Election > 2000
• Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 1991-
• Russia (Federation). Gosudarstvennai︠a︡ Duma > Elections, 1999
• Since 1991

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-306) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : the transition within the transition -- Setting the scene -- The party of power -- The party of hubris -- The Communists -- The Liberals -- Putin -- Results, consequences, and implications for U.S. Policy.

ISBN

• 081571534X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0815715358 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003019080

OCLC

52942974

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library