RUSSIA
USSR From Tsarist Rule… Communist Revolution in 1917 Superpower Democratic Revolution in 1991 …To Russian Federation
HYBRID SYSTEM Oligarchy = small group of advisors Real Democracy = struggle over freedoms Illiberal Democracy = on paper but not free Autocratic = deference to authority Statism = strong state protects form outside Which one?
PEOPLE AND PLACE Geography Change Large Tradition Statist Orthodoxy Equality
CHANGE Government Autocratic Tsars Totalitarian Communism Democratic Oligarchy Institutions Democratic Centralism Nomenklatura Politburo Economic New Economic Policy Collectivization Gosplan Reforms Glastnost Democratization Perestoika
CITIZENS AND THE STATE Contradictions Support idea of democracy Desire more freedom …but… Like strong government Want powerful leaders Cleavages Nationality Religion Social Class Urban/Rural Attitudes Mistrust Gov. and Statist Econ Transition and Westernization
PARTICIPATION 100% voting rate Choose within Party Undeveloped Civil Society State Corporatism Nashi
PARTIES Weak structures Short lifespan Personalistic Limited power Not Ideological United Russia Communist Party Liberal Democrats A Just Russia “Parties of Power”
CORPORATISM Top Oligarchs Own 50% of GNP “Insider Privatization” Russian Mafia protection money corruption Media Pravda
INSTITUTIONS Semi-Presidential President Prime Minister Bureaucrats Bicameral Federation Council Duma Courts Constitutional Supreme KGB Reinforce State Authority Military Loyal to Government
POLICY AND ISSUES Economy wavering into marketization and too oil dependent Foreign Policy dealing with Confederation of Independent States and the West Recentralization of Power under Putin and in the Kremlin Development of Civil Society against History of Statism Terrorism Loss of Population
VIDEOS 91dOEXf1N2q-oL x 8 in Russian with subtitles 91dOEXf1N2q-oL part 1 in English