Россия 2020 – Сценарии развития страны. Проект Московского Центра Карнеги

 

Richard Sakwa

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Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury and an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. After graduating in History from the London School of Economics, he took a PhD from the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham. He held lectureships at the Universities of Essex and California, Santa Cruz, before joining the University of Kent in 1987. He has published widely on Soviet, Russian and post-communist affairs. Books include: Postcommunism (Buckingham, Open University Press, 1999), Contextualising Secession: Normative Aspects of Secession Struggles (Oxford University Press, 2003), co-edited with Bruno Coppieters; the edited volume Chechnya: From Past to Future (London, Anthem Press; Sterling, VA, Stylus Publishers, 2005); Russian Politics and Society (London & New York, Routledge, 4th edn 2008), and Putin: Russia’s Choice (Routledge, 2nd edn 2008). His book on The Quality of Freedom: Khodorkovsky, Putin and the Yukos Affair was published by Oxford University Press in 2009, and his study called Communism in Russia: An Interpretative Essay was published by Palgrave Macmillan in August 2010. His book on The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession is due out with Cambridge University Press in late 2010.
 

Materials by this author:

  • Political Institutions, 10:09, 13.07.2010
    Introduction There are two main approaches to explaining Russia’s stunted democratic development. The first focuses on social and cultural factors ‘from below’: the weakness of an independent civil society, blurred class ...