Edited by Per-Arne Bodin, Stefan Hedlund and Elena Namli
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 245 pages ;
Dimensions
25 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series ;
Volume Designation
39
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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 V. 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 S. Gorham -- Legitimacy and symphony : on the relation between state and Church in post-Soviet Russia / Per-Arne Bodin -- Concluding remarks / Per-Arne Bodin, Stefan Hedlund and Elena Namli -- Index
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Executive power-- Russia (Federation)
Legitimacy of governments-- Russia (Federation)
Power (Social sciences)-- Russia (Federation)
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Russia (Federation), Politics and government, 1991-