Source: Carnegie
PUTIN'S RUSSIA |
Lilia Shevtsova | |
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| Paperback, 306 pp. | Cloth, 306 pp. | |
| ISBN: 0-87003-201-1 | ISBN: 0-87003-202-X | |
| Pub. Date: April 2003 | ||
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter One
Index
About the Book
On December 31, 1999 Yeltsin's Russia became Putin's Russia. Ailing political maverick Boris Yeltsin abruptly handed the country's leadership over to the virtually unknown former intelligence officer Vladimir Putin. The new Kremlin boss represented both continuity and change. While he was linked with the past, he also signified a sharp break from it.
With Putin's ascendancy to power, Russian leadership and Russia have changed dramatically. A pragmatic manager, Putin has tamed the Russian elite and arrogant tycoons, pushed forward economic reforms previously stalled under Yeltsin, and instituted a pro-Western foreign policy.
However, Russia's transformation under Putin remains a paradox. Outwardly he has proved his desire to modernize Russia, but he has also demonstrated a deep distrust of major democratic institutions and an open desire to keep tight control over society.
In Putin's Russia, Lilia Shevtsova examines how, under Putin, the country vacillates between optimism and anguish, hope and resentment. She examines the true nature of Putin's leadership and how far he is willing to go with further transformation. Time will tell if he can combine his authoritarian ways with economic liberalism and pro-Western policy to define the Russia of the twenty-first century.
About the Author
Lilia Shevtsova is senior associate in the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment, dividing her time between the Carnegie offices in Washington and Moscow. She is one of Russia's top political analysts, an award-winning journalist, and a regular commentator for major world television and radio networks. Before joining the Endowment, she was deputy director of the Institute of International Economic and Political Studies and director of the Center of Political Studies in Moscow. She is the author of six books, including Yeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality (Carnegie Endowment, 1999), and coeditor of Gorbachev,Yeltsin, and Putin (Carnegie Endowment, 2001).
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