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How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively ? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist ? Or has Russia stepped into a vacuum created by the West's distraction with its own domestic problems and US ambivalence about whether it still wants to act as a superpower ? This book examines the country's turbulent past, how it has influenced Putin, the Russians' understanding of their position on the global stage and their future ambitions - and their conviction that the West has tried to deny them a seat at the table of great powers since the USSR collapsed. It looks at Russia's key relationships - its downward spiral with the United States, Europe, and NATO; its ties to China, Japan, the Middle East; and with its neighbors, particularly the fraught relationship with Ukraine. The book will help Americans understand how and why the post-Cold War era has given way to a new, more dangerous world, one in which Russia poses a challenge to the United States in every corner of the globe - and one in which Russia has become a toxic and divisive subject in US politics.

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From the legendary visit of Apostle Andrew to the conclusion of Soviet authority in 1990, Daniel Shubin presents the entire history of Christianity in Russia in a multi-volume series. The events, people and politics that forged the earliest traditions of

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La 4e de couv. indique : "En 1904, la Russie autocratique de Nicolas II - alors le plus vaste empire terrestre au monde - est humiliée par ses revers militaires face au Japon, puis ébranlée par la révolution de 1905. Nicolas II cède d'abord aux aspirations de ses populations à la liberté, mais ne change pas sa conception du pouvoir. La Grande Guerre, ses échecs militaires et les difficultés économiques achèvent de le priver de tout soutien. Le gouvernement provisoire issu de la révolution de Février 1917 est à son tour incapable d'apaiser les tensions sociales et politiques, puis renversé par les bolcheviks en Octobre 1917. Cette nouvelle révolution provoque alors la désintégration de l'ancien empire et précipite la guerre civile. Finalement, les bolcheviks parviennent à imposer leur projet de transformation sociale et à reconfigurer l'essentiel de l'ancien domaine impérial russe, sous la forme de l'Union soviétique en 1922.".

Russia (Federation) --- Russia --- History

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National security - Russia (Federation) --- Geopolitics - Russia (Federation) --- Russia (Federation) - Military policy --- Russia (Federation) - Foreign relations --- National security --- Geopolitics --- Russia (Federation)

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Over the last decade the "transition paradigm", which is based on the conviction that authoritarian political systems would over time necessarily develop into democracies, has been subjected to serious criticism. The complex political and societal developments in the post-Soviet region in particular have exposed flaws in the claim that a shift from authoritarianism to democracy is inevitable. Using case studies from the post-Soviet region, a broad range of international contributors present an original and innovative contribution to the debate. They explore the character of post-Soviet regimes and review the political transformations they have experienced since the end of the Cold War. Through a combination of theoretical approaches and detailed, empirical analysis the authors highlight the difficulties and benefits of applying the concepts of hybrid regimes, competitive authoritarianism and neopatrimonialism to the countries of the post-Soviet space.Through this in-depth approach the authors demonstrate how "Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats" in the region lead their countries, examine the sources of their legitimacy and their relationship to the societies they govern and advance the general theoretical debate on regime change and transition paths.

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