Titlebook: Contemporary Russia; Edwin Bacon Textbook 2014Latest edition The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2014 economy.government.Histo

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The Historical Context,s or so Russia has experienced upheavals on a scale beyond most other nations — revolutions, a staggering number of war deaths, dictatorships, empire building and collapse, superpower status, unprecedented decline and partial renewal. Its society has repeatedly experienced radical transformation. It

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Politics and Government, A quarter of a century later there has still been no democratic change of government. Those heady days saw the Communist regime brought down with remarkable speed. The rhetoric of democracy held sway, Russia adopted a democratic constitution, new parties sprang up and some flourished, elections wer

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The Economy,h the Stolypin agricultural reforms just over a hundred years ago, on to nationalization by the Bolsheviks and the great upheaval of rapid industrialization under Stalin — Russia’s social and political life has been shaped by, and has shaped, economic requirements. Likewise, contemporary Russia is e

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Rights, Freedoms and Civil Society,t or Sergei Magnitsky, tighter regulations on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the trial of opposition activists, these make up the headline images of Russia in the Western world today. When Western leaders meet with Russia’s president, reference is almost invariably made to the latest such

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Culture and Media,entury novel, ., with British actress and Hollywood star Keira Knightley playing the eponymous heroine. The Russian release came an unusually long time afterwards, in January 2013. Veteran Russian film producer, Sergei Solovyov, was quoted as saying, of film distributors in Russia, ‘the idea of tryi