TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robinson,Neil
AU  - Schott,Gareth
TI  - Russian politics: an introduction 
SN  - 9780745631370 (pbk.) :
U1  - 320.9'47 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Politics and Government
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Specialized
N2  - Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin for a third presidential term in 2012 has seen Russian democracy further weaken and Russia's relations with the West seriously deteriorate. Yet within Russia Putin's position remains unchallenged and his foreign policy battles have received widespread public support. But is Putin as safe as his approval ratings lead us to believe? And how secure is the regime that he heads? In this innovative book, Neil Robinson places contemporary Russian politics in historical perspective to argue that Putin's regime has not overcome the problems that underpinned the momentous changes in twentieth-century Russian history when Russia veered from Tsarism to Soviet rule to post-communist chaos
ER  -