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Russia Under Yeltsin and Putin

Russia Under Yeltsin and Putin

Boris Kagarlitsky

(2002)

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Abstract

Russia has undergone more seismic changes over the last 100 years than almost any other country. The 1917 Revolution, the rapid industrialisation of the 1930s, the following devastation of the Second World War, and the present return to Capitalism has seen the deep impoverishment of the entire population.

Kagarlitsky shows how to understand these changes, and how to characterise the complex process of reform, revolution and counter revolution.

Looking in detail at the nature of Russian society and politics since 1990, Kagarlitsky offers an introductory political analysis of the major political and economic developments that have taken place under President Yeltsin, and the legacy he bequeathed so unexpectedly to his successor Putin. He focuses on the role of the media in post-Soviet Russia, corporate structures and their influence on social conflict, the formation of the oligarchy and the role of the left in modern Russia.
'A sorry tale, told with passion and competence'
Robert Service, Independent
'This passionate, pitiless analysis of post-Soviet Russia should be read by all interested in that country's present and future, especially the optimistic'
Robert H. Johnston, McMaster University
'There is a lot more here that anyone who has an interest in the last decade's events in Russia will find very valuable. Kagarlitsky is not afraid to put forward challenging ideas. And he remains optimistic about the possibility of resistance and a genuine left'
Red Pepper

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Contents iii
List of Abbreviations vi
Introduction 1
Part I: The Making of Yeltsin's Russia 11
1 The Inevitable Reaction 13
2 The Russian Intelligentsia between 'Westernism' and 'Patriotism' 50
3 The Rise of the Yeltsin Regime 77
Part II: A Monarchist 'Republic' 103
4 Word and Deed 105
5 The Corporatist Model and Social Conflict 133
6 The Post-Soviet Left 159
7 The Road to Default 188
Part III: The Twilight of the 'Second Republic' 203
8 The Drift to the Left (1998-99) 205
9 The War of the Kremlin Succession 223
10 The Putin Regime 251
Conclusion 280
Notes and References 290
Introduction 290
Chapter 1 290
Chapter 2 291
Chapter 3 292
Chapter 4 292
Chapter 5 293
Chapter 6 294
Chapter 7 296
Chapter 8 296
Chapter 9 296
Chapter 10 298
Conclusion 298
Index 299
Abramovich, Roman 270-1 270
Abramovich, Roman, 213