Virtual politics :faking democracy in the post-Soviet world
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1st ed.
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New Haven :
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Yale University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xviii, 332 p. :
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مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-318) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- 'Active measures' : a Russian tradition -- Politics as virtuality in the post-Soviet world -- The 'political technologist' : Machiavelli as corporate adviser -- 'Administrative resources' -- Politics as theatre : disguising the state holding company -- How many towers in the Kremlin? the 'many-layered pie' -- Dishing the opposition -- Inventing the opposition : Kremlin parties -- Inventing the opposition : virtual communists -- Conclusions.