This second edition of the highly respected Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society both provides a broad overview of the area and highlights cutting-edge research into the country.
Through balanced theoretical and empirical investigation, each chapter examines both the Russian experience and the existing literature, identifies and exemplifies research trends, and highlights the richness of experience, history, and continued challenges inherent to this enduringly fascinating and shifting polity. Politically, economically, and socially, Russia has one of the most interesting development trajectories of any major country. This Handbook answers questions about democratic transition, the relationship between the market and democracy, stability and authoritarian politics, the development of civil society, the role of crime and corruption, the development of a market economy, and Russia’s likely place in the emerging new world order.
Providing a comprehensive resource for scholars, students, and policy makers alike, this book is an essential contribution to the study of Russian studies/politics, Eastern European studies/politics, and International Relations.
Part 1: Introduction
1. Introduction
Graeme Gill
2. The Yeltsin era
Graeme Gill
3. The Putin era
Vladimir Gel’man
4. Democratisation
Richard Sakwa
5. How Russia compares
Rodney Tiffen
Part 2: Politics
6. Vladimir Putin: Great leader or ordinary authoritarian?
Kenneth Wilson
7. The Russian Constitution
Elizabeth Teague
8. The Presidency
John P. Willerton
9. The Federal Assembly: More than just a "rubber stamp"?
Ben Noble and Paul Chaisty
10. National elections in Russia
Derek S. Hutcheson
11. State intervention and Russia’s frozen dominant party system
Regina Smyth
12. Local government
Nikolay Petrov
13. Federalism and de-federalisation in Russia
Cameron Ross
14. Centre-regional relations in Russia
Irina Busygina and Mikhail Filippov
15. Politics in Russian regions
Alexander Libman
16. Decision-making
Stephen Fortescue
17. State capacity and Russia
Andrei Melville
18. Russia’s retreat from human rights
William Pomeranz
19. Protest and opposition
Jan Matti Dollbaum
20. The security services
Kirill Shamiev and Bettina Renz
21. The military
Jennifer G. Mathers
Part 3: Political economy
22. Political economy
Neil Robinson
23. Crony capitalism in contemporary Russia and what globalisation has to do with it
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
24. The Russian corporation: between neoliberalism and the security state
Peter Rutland
25. Russian international economic policy: Purposes and performance
Steven Rosefielde
Part 4: Society
26. Russian population dynamics in the Putin era
Leslie Root
27. Inequality in Russia
Svetlana Mareeva
28. Russian labour: Between stability and stagnation
Stephen Crowley
29. Gender in Russia: State policy and lived reality
Sarah Ashwin
30. The rise of a hybrid welfare state in Putin’s Russia: Social welfare under authoritarianism
Elena Maltseva
31. Media and culture in Putin’s Russia
Galina Miazhevich
32. ICT in Putin’s Russia: 1999-2021
Ilya Yablokov and Olga Solovyeva
33. Symbolism and the transformation of the national historical narrative in post-Soviet Russia
Olga Malinova
34. The politics of memory
Alexey Golubev and Fedor Nikolai
35. Civil society and the state
Leah Gilbert
36. Informal politics
Alena Ledeneva
37. Corruption and organised crime in post-Soviet Russia
Leslie Holmes
38. Russian nationalism
Jules Sergei Fediunin
39. Ethnic relations
Helge Blakkisrud
40. Religion
Thomas Bremer
Part 5: Foreign policy
41. Russian foreign policy and the challenge to the existing world order
Roger E. Kanet
42. Russian security policy and outlook
Graeme P. Herd
43. Russia’s attitudes and policies toward Ukraine
Dmitri Trenin
44. Russia and Belarus
Rasmus Nilsson
45. Russia’s foreign policy in Central Asia: in search of privileged partnership
Kirill Nourzhanov
46. The Kremlin’s reverse democracy: Relations with the Caucasus region
Lilia A. Arakelyan
47. US-Russian relations
Angela Stent
48. Russia and the European Union: The path to a strategic disengagement
Andrey Kortunov
49. Russia and China
Natasha Kuhrt
Biography
Graeme Gill is Professor Emeritus at the University of Sydney, Australia.
"Knowledge and understanding of Russian society and its political trajectories have seldom been more important than they are today. Graeme Gill, a highly respected and insightful Russian expert, has brought together, in this Handbook of remarkable scope, an outstanding international team of specialists who illuminate almost every aspect of post-Communist Russia "
Archie Brown, University of Oxford, UK, and author of The Rise and Fall of Communism
"This timely update provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to Russian politics. Gill has brought together many of the world’s leading experts in a single volume, who are able to provide a state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge on their topic. An outstanding and indispensable contribution to Russian studies."
Brian D. Taylor, Syracuse University, USA
"This book combines excellent scholarship from the leading experts in the field of Russian politics and society with a broad and almost exhaustive range of addressed topics. Undoubtedly, this nuanced overview presented so nicely will be a useful read for both newbies and academics who specialise on Russia."
Guzel Yusupova, SCRIPTS, Berlin, Germany
