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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Towards a Working Class Society: the Russian Class Structure in the 1990s -- 2 Social Mobility in Russian Society -- 3 Labour Markets in Semi-Market Society -- 4 Change and Continuity in Russian Work Organization -- 5 Reproduction and Classes During Economic Crises -- 6 Mental Climate in Russia -- 7 Values in Contemporary Russian Society -- 8 Restoration of Class Society in Russia? -- Bibliography -- Index.

In the early 1990s, competitive elections in the Russian Federation signaled the end of the authoritarian political system dominated by a single political party. More than ten years and many elections later, a single party led by Russian President Vladimir Putin threatens to end Russia's democratic experiment. Russia's experience with new elections is not unique but it does challenge existing theories of democratic consolidation by showing that competitive elections cannot guarantee successful democratic consolidation. This book explores the conditions under which electoral competition contributes to democratic development by examining impact of elections on democratic consolidation. The theoretic framework focuses on the construction of infrastructure that transforms competitive elections into mechanisms of democratic development and shows how candidates for national parliamentary office systematically chose electoral strategies that undermined Russia's democratic foundation and created the conditions for a new single party autocracy to emerge

Over the last fifteen years, Russia has become a larger part of the global economy-and in the years ahead, it will continue to grow in prominence. If you want to improve your investment endeavors in this market, you must first understand how it operates. With Out of the Red as your guide, you'll become familiar with all the opportunities this country has to offer and learn how to make the most informed investing decision within this emerging arena.

1. Introduction : why no authoritarian modernization in Russia? / Vladimir Gel'man -- 2. Fathers versus sons : generation changes and the ideational agenda of reforms in late-twentieth-century Russia / Vladimir Gel'man and Dmitry Travin -- 3. The dilemma of the perception of the strong state in Russia and the demand for modernization / Markku Kangaspuro -- 4. Framing modernization in Russian newspapers : words, not deeds / Jukka Pietilainen -- 5. Authoritarianism and institutional decay in Russia : disruption of property rights and the rule of law / Andrey Zaostrovtsev -- 6. The Russian people's front and hybrid governance dilemma / Jussi Lassila -- 7. Social network sites and political governance in Russia / Markku Lonkila -- 8. Russia's post-neoliberal development strategy and high-technology considerations / Anna Lowry -- 9. How does the government implement unpopular reforms? : evidence from education policy in Russia / Andrey Starodubtsev -- 10. Choosing between bureaucracy and the reformers : the Russian pension reform of 2001 as a compromise squared / Anna A. Dekalchuk -- 11. Labor reform in Putin's Russia : could modernization be democratic? / Ivan S. Grigoriev.

In the context of growing human rights abuses, religious freedom conditions in Russia suffered serious setbacks. The Russian government's application of its extremism law violates the rights of members of certain Muslim groups and allegedly ""non-traditional"" religious communities, particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, through raids, detentions, and imprisonment. Various laws and practices increasingly grant preferential status to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Russian Federation has a highly centralized political system, with power increasingly concentrated in the pr

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the contemporary Russian women's movement and of the social, political, economic, historical, and international contexts that surround it. Valerie Sperling paints a vivid portrait of the women's movement's formation and development, paying particular attention to the key challenges facing a social movement in post-communist society, including the virtual absence of civil society, constant flux in political institutions, wrenching economic changes, and the movement's own status in a changing transnational environment. The author also addresses the specific challenges facing women's organizations by discussing societal attitudes towards feminism in Russia. Based on participant observation, primary source materials, and dozens of interviews conducted in Moscow (as well as two smaller Russian cities), the narrative brings alive the activists' struggle to build a social movement under difficult conditions, and sheds new light on the troubled and complex process of Russia's democratization

Intro -- RUSSIA AND UKRAINE IMPORT AND EXPORT GUIDES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE -- RUSSIA AND UKRAINE IMPORT AND EXPORT GUIDES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 RUSSIAN FEDERATION: FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL IMPORT REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS∗ -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- SECTION I. FOOD LAWS -- Russian Legislation and Principal Regulatory Documents on Foodstuff Imports -- 1. Customs Union documents: -- General -- Tariff and TRQs -- General SPS Measures -- 2. Russian Federal Laws in effect to the extent that they do not contradict the CU Agreements and CU Commission/EEC Decisions: -- General -- General SPS Measures -- Sanitary Measures -- Veterinary Measures -- Phytosanitary Measures -- Technical Regulation -- 3. Russian Government Regulations: -- Sanitary Measures -- Veterinary Measures -- Technical Regulation -- 4. Russian Competent Authority Regulations: -- Sanitary Measures -- Veterinary Measures -- Phytosanitary Measures -- Technical Regulation -- Russia's Federal Regulatory Bodies for Imported Foodstuffs -- Customs Union Regulatory Bodies -- Belarus -- Kazakhstan -- Russian Federation -- SECTION II. LABELING REQUIREMENTS -- General Requirements -- Biotech Products -- Organic Products -- SECTION III. PACKAGING AND CONTAINER REGULATIONS -- SECTION IV. FOOD ADDITIVES REGULATIONS -- SECTION V. PESTICIDES AND OTHER CONTAMINANTS -- SECTION VI. OTHER REGULATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS -- Licensing -- Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQs) -- Alcohol -- Excise Stamps -- Alcohol -- Products under sanitary-epidemiological control -- Product Registration -- Biotech Crops -- Alcohol -- Declaration of Conformity -- Products under veterinary control -- Veterinary Health Certificate -- Lists of Approved Establishments -- Import Permits -- Products under Phytosanitary Control -- Phytosanitary Certificates

Preface -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Acronyms -- List of Tables -- List of Graphs -- 1 The Disintegration of the Soviet Union: Systemic Change and Systematic Collapse -- The Structure of the Argument -- Monolithic Party and Democratic Centralism -- Soviet Economy: Uneven and Over-Militarised -- Gorbachev's Reforms: Perestroika and Glasnost -- Conflicts Between Party Elites: Gorbachev-Yeltsin Rivalry -- Surge of Nationalism in the Soviet Republics -- Was Disintegration Inevitable? -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 The Constitution of Russia: Genesis, Features and Political Implications -- Why a New Constitution? -- An Outline of the Constitution -- Fundamental Structure of the Constitution -- Constitutionalism and Accountability -- Political Implications -- References -- 3 The Formation of the Federation and Regional Politics -- The Federal Discourse -- Regional Structure -- Negotiating the Federation (1990-2000) -- The constitution and the Regional Question -- Putin and the Changes in Federal Laws -- The Regional Elite -- Patterns in Regional Politics -- Regional Politics and Governance -- Economic Reforms in the Region -- Inter-regional Conflicts in the Early Years -- The Case of Tatarstan -- The Case of the Caucasus and Chechnya -- Separatism in Dagestan -- Integrative Federalism Under Putin -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 The Presidency and Presidential Power -- Putin's Ascendance to Power -- Putin's Understanding of Russia -- Putin's Popularity -- Consolidating Russian Statehood -- Political Management -- Economic Consolidation -- Re-emergence of Russian Power -- Social Policies -- The Medvedev Interregnum (2008-2012) -- The Yeltsin Years -- Shaping the Presidency -- The President in the Russian Federation -- The Conflict with the Parliament -- The President's Role in the New Constitution -- Elite and Presidential Politics