The Strong State in Russia: Development and Crisis

The Strong State in Russia: Development and Crisis
ISBN-10
0199336210
ISBN-13
9780199336210
Category
History
Pages
271
Language
English
Published
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Andrei P. Tsygankov

Description

Tsygankov provides a succinct account of the major periods in evolution of Russia's strong state construct by reviewing the external and internal contexts of its emergence, progression, and fall in Muscovy, St. Petersburg, Soviet Union, and post-Soviet Russia with an emphasis on the last two decades. Each time a combination of these contexts was distinct thereby producing different political outcomes in Russia. The book argues that a perspective on Russia from a Western viewpoint is limited and that there has been an alternative way of thinking about the nation and its problems.

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