Table of Contents

Archie Brown: Introduction to Contemporary Russian Politics
Institutional Design
Archie Brown: Introduction
1: Igor Klyamkin and Lilia Shevtsova: The Tactical Origins of Russia's New Political Institutions
2: Peter Ordeshook: Re-examining Russia: Institutions and Incentives
3: Eugene Huskey: Democracy and Institutional Design in Russia
The Presidency and Political Leadership
Archie Brown: Introduction
4: John B. Dunlop: Sifting Through the Rubble of the Yeltsin Years
5: George Breslauer: Boris Yeltsin as Patriarch
6: Eugene Huskey: Overcoming the Yeltsin Legacy: Vladimir Putin and Russian Political Reform
The Legislature and the Law
Archie Brown: Introduction
7: Paul Chaisty: Legislative Politics in Russia
8: Eugene Huskey: Legislative-Executive Relations in the Yeltsin Era
9: Kathryn Hendley: Rewriting the Rules of the Game in Russia: The Neglected Issue of the Demand for Law
10: Peter Rutland and Natasha Kogan: The Russian Mafia: Between Hype and Reality
Elections and the Electoral System
Archie Brown: Introduction
11: Yitzhak Brudny: Continuity and Change in Russian Electoral Patterns? The December 1999 - March 2000 Electoral Cycle
12: Vladimir Gelman: The Iceberg of Russian Political Finance
13: Robert G. Moser: The Impact of Parliamentary Electoral Systems in Russia
Problems of Party Formation and Consolidation
Archie Brown: Introduction
14: Richard Rose: How Floating Parties Frustrate Democratic Accountability: A Supply-Side View of Russia's Elections
15: Darrell Slider: Russia's Governors and Party Formation
16: Stephen Whitefield: Partisan and Party Divisions in Post-Communist Russia
Economic Reform: Politics, Interests, and Social Consequences
Archie Brown: Introduction
17: Richard Ericson: Is Russia in Transition to a Market Economy?
18: Sergei Peregudov: The Oligarchical Model
19: Nodari Simonia: Economic Interests and Political Power in Post-Soviet Russia
Public Opinion, Political Beliefs, and the Mass Media
Archie Brown: Introduction
20: Richard Rose: Living in an Antimodern Society
21: Oksana Gaman-Golutvina: Modernization and the Value System of the Russian Elite
22: Yury Levada: Homo Praevaricatus: Russian Doublethink
23: Laura Belin: Political Bias and Self-Censorship in the Russian Media
Russian Statehood and the National Question
Archie Brown: Introduction
24: Gail Lapidus: State Building and State Breakdown in Russia
25: Vera Tolz: Politicians' Conceptions of the Russian Nation
26: Ronald Grigor Suny: Russia's Identity Crisis
Federalism, Regionalism, and Local Government
Archie Brown: Introduction
27: Jeff Kahn: What is the New Russian Federalism?
28: Alla Chirikova and Natalya Lapina: Political Power and Political Stability in the Russian Regions
29: Tomila Lankina: Local Government and Ethnic and Social Activism in Russia
Russia and the World
Archie Brown: Introduction
30: Margot Light: Post-Soviet Russian Foreign Policy: The First Decade
31: Vladimir Baranovsky: Russia: A Part of Europe or Apart from Europe?
32: Roy Allison: Russia and the New States of Eurasia
The Russian Transition in Comparative Perspective
Archie Brown: Introduction
33: Philippe C. Schmitter with Terry Lynn Karl: The Conceptual Travels of Transitologists ans Consolidologists: How Far to the East Should They Attempt to Go?
34: Valerie Bunce: Should Transitologists be Grounded?
35: Terry Lynn Karl and Philippe C. Schmitter: From an Iron Curtain to a Paper Curtain: Grounding Transitologists or Students of Postcommunism?
36: Valerie Bunce: Paper Curtains and Paper Tigers
37: Vladimir Gelman: Regime Transition, Uncertainty and Prospects for Democratisation: The Politics of Russia's Regions in Comparative Perspective
Is Russia becoming a Democracy?
Archie Brown: Introduction
38: William Smirnov: Russian Democratization: Achievements and Problems
39: Alexander Lukin: Electoral Democracy or Electoral Clanism? Russian Democratization and Theories of Transition
40: Archie Brown: Evaluating Russia's Democratization
Index

About the Author

Archie Brown is Professor of Politics at Oxford University and Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre at St Antony's College, Oxford, where he has been a Fellow since 1971. His book, The Gorbachev Factor, won the W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize of the Political Studies Association of the UK for best political science book of its year and was also joint winner of the Alec Nove Prize for best book on Communism, Post-Communism, or Russia. Professor Brown
was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1991 and is currently Chair of its Political Studies Section.

Reviews

This is a carefully winnowed collection of some of the best articles - Western and Russian - from the second half of the decade ... the selection of the articles and their grouping into twelve sections was a rigorous process. ...The book's aim is to give students of Russian politics easy access to a wide range of material that might otherwise have escaped their attention. In this it succeeds admirably ... Moreover, Archie Brown's introduction to the volume and
to each section, as well as his concluding chapter, would make a worthwhile book in themselves.' International Affairs, Oct 2001
'This is an excellent reader bringing together papers from a wide variety of sources. It will be widely used by teachers and students of contemporary Russian politics.' THES, November 2001
'As a collection of key, previously published articles and specially commissioned chapters, Brown creates an extremely comprehensive and expertly detailed book. Many of the previously published articles come from notable Russian journals that would otherwise not be accessible to English-speaking readers....This book should indeed furnish the shelves of any student of Russian politics....It is, very probably, the most comprehensive and the most educative book on
Russian politics currently on the market.'Jen Tracy, former reporter for the 'Moscow Times' and special issues editor of the online journal 'Transitions Online.'
'Students of Russia's transition have received the solid and comprehensive reader they have long been waiting for, thanks to the outstanding efforts of Archie Brown... If Russian policymakers charting the course of further transition were to make this volume their reader, they would certainly save the country a lot of trouble.' Journal of Peace Research
'In itself Brown's volume is clearly one of the most comprehensive and high-quality volumes available for the classroom today.' Mark A. Cichock, Political Studies, Vol 50 No. 4