Weak Strongman (eBook)

The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia

Timothy Frye (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
381 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24628-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually worksMedia and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is remarkably similar to other autocraciesand recognizing this illuminates the inherent limits to Putin's power. Weak Strongman challenges the conventional wisdom about Putin's Russia, highlighting the difficult trade-offs that confront the Kremlin on issues ranging from election fraud and repression to propaganda and foreign policy.Drawing on three decades of his own on-the-ground experience and research as well as insights from a new generation of social scientists that have received little attention outside academia, Timothy Frye reveals how much we overlook about today's Russia when we focus solely on Putin or Russian exceptionalism. Frye brings a new understanding to a host of crucial questions: How popular is Putin? Is Russian propaganda effective? Why are relations with the West so fraught? Can Russian cyber warriors really swing foreign elections? In answering these and other questions, Frye offers a highly accessible reassessment of Russian politics that highlights the challenges of governing Russia and the nature of modern autocracy.Rich in personal anecdotes and cutting-edge social science, Weak Strongman offers the best evidence available about how Russia actually works.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.9.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: activism • Aleksandr Dugin • aleksandr solzhenitsyn • alexander litvinenko • Alexei Navalny • Anne Applebaum • autocracy • bank run • Boris Nemtsov • bribery • Cold War • Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II • Communist Party of the Russian Federation • corporate raid • Corruption • Corruption in India • cronyism • demagogue • Economics • Economy of Russia • electoral fraud • Era of Stagnation • evil empire • Financial crisis of 2007–08 • foreign policy • Foreign relations of Russia • Fraud • Great Power • Great Purge • homo sovieticus • International crisis • János Kádár • Kommersant • Lame duck (politics) • Liberal Democratic Party of Russia • Masha Gessen • Military Dictatorship • name recognition • Natalya Estemirova • Oleg Kashin • Party of crooks and thieves • political revolution • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Politics of Russia • Potemkin village • protectionism • Putin's Russia • Red Tape • robert caro • Russia and weapons of mass destruction • russians • security agency • Sergei Magnitsky • Soviet Empire • Soviet Union • Soviet Union–United States relations • Stuxnet • Superiority (short story) • Tax Collector • Term limit • The Oligarchs • The Red Web (book) • United Russia • United States embargoes • Vladimir Posner • Vladimir Putin • Voting • Yukos
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24628-9 / 0691246289
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24628-4 / 9780691246284