| Description |
x, 245 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series ; 39
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Dimensions of Russia: developments after the USSR / Klaus von Beyme -- Never show weakness: how faking autocracy legitimates Putin's hold on power / Stephen Holmes -- Legitimizing the Russian executive: identity, technocracy, and performance / Eugene Huskey -- Legitimacy of power and security of property / Stefan Hedlund -- Capitalism and Russian democracy / Boris Kapustin -- Democracy in Russia: problems of legitimacy / Boris Mezhuev -- Power and society in Russia: a value approach to legitimacy / Ruben Apressyan -- Powerful rationality or rationality of power?: reflections on Russian scepticism towards human rights / Elena Namli -- The "cultural/civilizational turn" in post-Soviet identity building / Jutta Scherrer -- Conservative political romanticism in post-Soviet Russia / Andrey Medushevsky -- Bez stali i leni: aesopian language and legitimacy / Irina Sandomirskaia -- Medvedev's new media gambit: the language of power in 140 characters or less / Michael Gorham -- Legitimacy and symphony: on the relation between state and church in post-Soviet Russia / Per-Arne Bodin. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Power (Social sciences) -- Russia (Federation)
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Executive power -- Russia (Federation)
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Legitimacy of governments -- Russia (Federation)
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Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bodin, Per-Arne, 1949-
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Hedlund, Stefan, 1953-
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Namli, Elena.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780415677769 |
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9780203108772 (electronic bk.) |
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