How Russians Understand the New Russia: Consolidation and Contestation
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Beteiligte Personen: Chaisty, Paul (VerfasserIn), Whitefield, Stephen 1956- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New Jersey Princeton University Press 2025
Abstract:The issues that are the most and the least divisive in Russia. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 created a new Russia, with new territorial boundaries and new political and economic systems. The hybrid political economy that emerged incorporated commitments to markets and democracy that were undermined by the state's economic interventions and authoritarian restrictions. In this book, Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield argue that the hybridityof the post-Soviet system provided a strong basis for the consolidationof Russian public opinion-and for the managementof contestationso thatit did not threaten the system itself. Drawingon almost thirty yearsof original public opinion researchin Russia, Chaisty and Whitefield also find, however, that the territorial dimensionof Russia's postcommunist transformation has disrupted public support for the hybrid political economy.In particular, they trace the reopeningof system-level disagreement between system supporters and system opponentsto the nationalist turnin Russian politics that culminatedin the 2014 annexationof Crimea and the reactivationof Soviet identities. How Russians Understand the New Russia provides thefirst longitudinalstudy of Russian public opinion on the system of political and economicpower that replaced communism. It offers unique insights into how Russian citizens have adaptedtheirviews of the new Russia, identifying the issues that are the most-and the least-divisive. Chaisty and Whitefieldtrack Russian public opinion on abroadrange of policy questions, discuss the political importance of both voting and not voting and consider problems of nation-building and national identity. Finally, theyweigh the impact of the Ukraine war on Russia's hybrid system, and whether consolidation or further contestation is more likely.
Umfang:208 Seiten 39 b/w illus. 4 tables. 235 x 156 mm
ISBN:9780691258645