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  • The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of “Democracy” in Russian Political Discourse Volume Four

    The Demise of “Democracy” after Putin’s Return to Power

    by David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer ...
    In this volume we focus on the years following Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012. This has been a more active period than his first two terms, including the annexation of Crimea and, ultimately, the invasion of Ukraine. Thus, this period may be characterized as the run-up to that war. The core issue discussed in this volume is Putin’s redefinition of “democracy” as the foundation of society ... Read more

    $125.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of “Democracy” in Russian Political Discourse, Volume 2

    The Promise of “Democracy” during the Yeltsin Years

    by David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer ...
    Post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s saw a surge in civic participation. The traditional power structure officially relinquished control of political rhetoric and a nascent civil society had begun to emerge. Free elections and political partisanship between reformist and conservative elements of Russian society, spurred on by Russia’s economic troubles, gave a “Wild West” tenor to public rhetoric that ... Read more

    $99.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of “Democracy” in Russian Political Discourse, Volume 1

    The Path from Disaster toward Russian “Democracy”

    by David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer ...
    The essays in this book examine the arguments and rhetoric used by the United States and the USSR following two catastrophes that impacted both countries, as blame is cast and consequences are debated. In this environment, it was perhaps inevitable that conspiracy theories would arise, especially about the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over the Sea of Japan. Those theories are examined, ... Read more

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  • The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of “Democracy” in Russian Political Discourse, Volume 3

    Vladimir Putin and the Redefinition of “Democracy” – 2000-2008

    by David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer ...
    In Volume Three of this four-volume series, we examine the rhetorical development that occurred during the first two terms of Vladimir Putin’s tenure as president of the Russian Federation. Initially, Putin appeared to follow in the path set by his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, vowing that Russia was, at heart, a European nation and would be a westward facing democracy going forward. He even ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

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  • Gorbachev

    On My Country and the World

    by Mikhail Gorbachev ...
    The last president of the Soviet Union discusses Communism, the Cold War, and bringing democracy to Russia in this sweeping political memoir.Drawing on his own experience and rich archival material, Mikhail Gorbachev shares his illuminating perspective on Russia's past, present, and future place in the world. Beginning with the October Revolution of 1917, he notes how much Vladimir Lenin and the ... Read more

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  • Russia Against Modernity

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Putin’s war is a “special operation” against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and digital labor. By trading oil and gas, promoting Trump and Brexit, spreading corruption, boosting inequality and homophobia, subsidizing far-right movements and destroying Ukraine, Putin’s clique aims ... Read more

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  • Near Abroad

    Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus

    by Gerard Toal ...
    Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's "near abroad" - newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union and are now Russia's neighbors. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines in the wake of the global recession, the geopolitical contest that created it did not. Six years later, the spectre of a revanchist Russia ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • Putin

    Russia's Choice

    by Richard Sakwa ...
    The new edition of this extremely well-received political biography of Vladimir Putin builds on the strengths of the first edition to provide the most detailed and nuanced account of the man, his politics and his profound influence on Russian politics, foreign policy and society. New to this edition:analysis of Putin's second term as Presidentmore biographical information in the light of recent ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Russia and the New World Disorder

    by Bobo Lo ...
    The Russian annexation of Crimea was one of the great strategic shocks of the past twenty-five years. For many in the West, Moscow's actions in early 2014 marked the end of illusions about cooperation, and the return to geopolitical and ideological confrontation. Russia, for so long a peripheral presence, had become the central actor in a new global drama. In this groundbreaking book, renowned ... Read more

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  • Lonely Power

    Why Russia Has Failed to Become the West and the West is Weary of Russia

    by Lilia Shevtsova ...
    Adapted from the Russian edition, this book analyzes the dominant stereotypes and myths that formed during the Putin presidency and that continue to hamper our understanding of Russia's current situation.Author Lilia Shevtsova explains the origins of such political clichés as Russia is not mature enough for democracy; Capitalism first, and democracy will follow; The humiliation of Russia by the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Debating the War in Ukraine

    Counterfactual Histories and Future Possibilities

    by Tuomas Forsberg, Heikki Patomäki ...
    Debating the War in Ukraine discusses whether the war could have been avoided, and, if so, how? In this dialogical book, the authors discuss nodal points of history in terms of counterfactuals and contrastive explanations, concluding by considering future possibilities.They start in the 1990s where several causal elements of the war originate involving Russia’s economic developments and Europe’s ... Read more

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  • Putin Redux

    Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia

    by Richard Sakwa ...
    This book builds on the strengths of the previous volumes by the same author to provide the most detailed and nuanced account of the man, his politics and his profound influence on Russian politics, foreign policy and society.However, this is not a new edition of the earlier books but is an entirely new work. The focus now is on the dilemmas of power since 2008. There is a brief biographical ... Read more

    $75.99 USD