Federalism, democratization, and the rule of law in Russia [electronic resource] / Jeffrey Kahn.

Author
Kahn, Jeffrey, 1971- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description
1 online resource (339 p.)

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Combining the approaches of three fields of scholarship - political science, law and Russian area- tudies - the author explores the foundations and future of the Russian Federation. Russia's political elite have struggled to build an extraordinarily complex federal system, one that incorporates eighty-nine different units and scores of different ethnic groups, which sometimes harbor long histories of resentment against Russian imperial and Soviet legacies. This bookexamines the public debates, official documents and political deals that built Russia's federal house on very unsteady foundatio
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-312) and index.
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English
Contents
Contents; List of Tables; List of Maps and Figures; List of Abbreviations and Glossary; 1. Introduction; 2. Federal Theory; 3. Soviet 'Federalism'; 4. Gorbachev's Federalism Problem; 5. The Process of Federal Transition; 6. Inter-governmental Relations under Yeltsin's New Federalism; 7. Federal Effects on Transitions in Russia's Republics; 8. The Federal Reforms of Vladimir Putin; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Statutes, Decrees, and Constitutional Court Decisions; Index
ISBN
  • 1-281-93037-7
  • 9786611930370
  • 0-19-152996-6
OCLC
302363827
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