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<div><P>Russia has embarked on a slow but steady path of foreign policy alignment with the West. President Vladimir Putin&#161;&#175;s market-oriented economic policies and structural reforms have added momentum. But in the long run, the decisive factor in Russia&#161;&#175;s relationship with the West will be the nature of the political order it builds on the ruins of communism. There is a broad consensus among Western observers that Russia&#161;&#175;s effort to build Western-style democratic institutions in the eleven years since the Soviet collapse has stalled somewhere between democracy as understood in the West and the highly authoritarian order Russia inherited from the USSR. Some would say that Russia is doomed by its history and political culture to a lengthy period of semi-authoritarianism. In Russia&#161;&#175;s Road to Deeper Democracy, Tom Bjorkman presents evidence that this assessment is too pessimistic and underestimates the forces for political change that lie beneath the surface of what seems to be an era of political somnolence. Bjorkman argues that it is not the weight of history or the antidemocratic attitudes of the Russian population that restrain Russia

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Author
Tom Bjorkman
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Published
2003
Language
EN
ISBN
9780815708988
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Political Science, Science, History

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