Fragile empire : how Russia fell in and out of love with Vladimir Putin /

Fragile empire : how Russia fell in and out of love with Vladimir Putin /

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Author / Creator:	Judah, Ben, author.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource (379 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, -- 1952- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, -- 1952- Presidents -- Russia (Federation) Politics and government Presidents. Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991- Russia (Federation) Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11302729

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ISBN:	9780300185256 0300185251 9781299483446 1299483445 9780300181210 0300181213 9780300205220 0300205228
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-355) and index.
Summary:	From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin's friends, foes, and colleagues, government officials, business tycoons, mobsters, and ordinary Russian citizens. Fragile Empire is the fruit of Judah's thorough research: a probing assessment of Putin's rise to power and what it has meant for Russia and her people. Despite a propaganda program intent on maintaining the cliché of stability, Putin's regime was suddenly confronted in December 2011 by a highly public protest movement that told a different side of the story. Judah argues that Putinism has brought economic growth to Russia but also weaker institutions, and this contradiction leads to instability. The author explores both Putin's successes and his failed promises, taking into account the impact of a new middle class and a new generation, the Internet, social activism, and globalization on the president's impending leadership crisis. Can Russia avoid the crisis of Putinism? Judah offers original and up-to-the-minute answers.
Other form:	Print version: 9781299483446

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION THE WEAKEST STRONGMAN
PART ONE The Rise of the Lieutenant Colonel
1. The President from Nowhere
2. The Videocracy
3. The Great Turn
4. The Vertical of Power
5. Putin's Court
6. Dizzy with Success
PART TWO Watch the Throne
7. Servant Medvedev
8. Navalny and the Evolution of the Opposition
9. The Decembrists
10. Moscow Is Not Russia
11. Moscow the Colonialist
12. Chinese Nightmares
Conclusion: The Ghosts
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX.