FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 6, 2004
Is Russia a democracy? Will Russia be a democracy in ten years? Was Russia ever a democracy? In the new Carnegie book Between Dictatorship and Democracy – Russian Post-Communist Political Reform, authors Michael McFaul, Nikolai Petrov and Andrei Ryabov seek answers to these difficult, controversial questions.
In the 1990s, Russia began a revolution that is still under way. While it may be fair to argue that Russia is moving in an autocratic direction, Between Dictatorship and Democracy argues that the current political system still retains some democratic features and that Russia is neither a democracy nor dictatorship.
Unlike many books that write from a U.S. or British vantage point, this book gives a Moscow-anchored view of Russian political events over the past decade. Instead of being shaped by American foreign policy considerations, it brings pluralism in method and approach--as a result of the unique partnership between Carnegie scholars based in the United States and at the Carnegie Moscow Center. Visit www.carnegieendowment.org/RussianReform to read free excerpts from the book.
Michael McFaul is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment and associate professor at the Hoover Institute, Stanford University and author of Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin. Nikolai Petrov is a scholar-in-residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center and publisher of the Political Almanac of Russia 1997 and Russian Regions in 1999 and 2000. Andrei Ryabov is a scholar-in-residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center. He is editor-in-chief of The World Economy and International Relations and co-author of Party-Political Elites and Electoral Processes in Russia.
Between Dictatorship and Democracy – Russian Post-Communist Political Reform
Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/March 2004/364 pages
$24.95/paperback: ISBN: 0-87003-206-2
$50.00/clothbound: ISBN: 0-87003-207-0
To order call: 1-800-275-1447 or 202-797-6258 or visit www.carnegieendowment.org/RussianReform