1 Abbreviations 2 Foreword 3 Preface 4 Acknowledgments 5 Part 1:Sic Transit: Stalin's Heirs 6 Part 2: Khrushchev: An Era of Coups 7 Part 3: One of a Kind: The Gorbachev to Yel'tsin Transition 8 Part 4: The 18th Brumaire of Vladimir Putin 9 Epilogue
Uri Ra'anan is professor of international relations and director for the Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy at Boston University. He is also an associate of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University.
As the four case studies in this excellent volume demonstrate, a
key obstacle to Russia's political development has been and remains
a struggle for power among Soviet and now Russian political elites
that has subverted the development of stable and effective state
institutions and resulted in the rule of men not the rule of law. .
. . While this book is fascinating 'inside baseball' for a student
of Russian politics, it also raises larger questions for thought
about the underlying dynamics of Russia's political
development.
*The Russian Review*
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