Russian Politics in Transition: Institutional Conflict in a Nascent Democracy

ISBN-13: 9781138354227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 329 str.

Nikolai Biryukov; Victor Sergeyev

Opis

First published in 1997 and written by two distinguished Russian scholars, this book examines the problems and prospects of democratic transition in Russia since the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Spis treści

Part 1. Dualism and Sobornost’ (a Theory). 1. Transition to Modernity and the Problem of Social Integration. 2. Pluralism and Integration. 3. Perestroika and the Crisis of Sobornost’. Part 2. The Rise and Fall of the First Russian Parliament (a History). 4. From a Regional Assembly to the National Legislature. 5. The Parliament and the Reform. 6. The Fall of the Parliament. Part 3. Parliamentary Behaviour at a Formative Stage (Three Case Studies). 7. Voting in the Russian Parliament: The Spectrum of Political Forces and the Conflict between the Executive and the Legislative. 8. The People and the Legislative: Populist Trends in Contemporary Parliamentary Discourse. 9. Legislation of the Second Republic: Democratic Values and Democratic Procedures in the Juridical Context of Sobornost’. 10. Conclusion: Transition to Democracy: Political Shock Therapy or a Conflict of Legitimacies.

O autorze

Nikolai Biryukov, Victor Sergeyev