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Russian Politics and Presidential Power takes an in-depth look at the Russian presidency and uses it as a key to understanding Russian politics. Donald R. Kelley looks at presidents from Gorbachev to Putin as authoritarian, transformational leaders who set out to build the future, while sometimes rejecting and reinterpreting the work of past modernizers. Placing the presidency in this context helps readers understand both the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the nature of the Russian Federation that rose in its place. And by setting the presidency within a longer historical context, Kelley shows how the future of the presidency is dependent on other features of the political system.
Putin II, 2012–
Putin II, 2012–
As the dust settled from the 2011 Duma and 2012 presidential elections, mixed signals emerged about the future course of Russian politics. On one hand, Putin’s easy victory amid charges of voting fraud and the increasing repression of the regime’s critics suggested a tightening of political power at the center and of more invasive controls over society. Although the term was avoided, the vertical seemed alive and well in Moscow and beyond. On the other hand, there also were indications of some degree of moderation in Putin’s reassertion of controls, vigorously disputed by the regime’s critics at home and abroad. Steps were taken to ease restrictions on the creation of new parties and promises were made that future elections ...
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