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About this book
- New B-format paperback edition.
- Kenneth MacInnes lived in Russia for twenty years, and has translated many Russian work into English and vice versa (including the novels of George Orwell). This gives him a unique insight, and access to Russian sources, that mean he is perfectly placed to write this book.
- December 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union - this will generate significant media coverage, and this book is a perfectly timed commentary on the impact this had on Russia. It fills the gap between the end of the USSR and the rise of Vladimir Putin.
- An entertaining story full of colourful characters and events, this is an astonishing tale of what happens when one of the most powerful nations on earth becomes a democracy. With Putin's grip on contemporary Russia suffocating democratic freedoms, this book is also a tantalising glimpse at what the post-Putin era may bring.
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Yes, you can access When Russia Did Democracy by Kenneth MacInnes in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Russian History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Sovereign Democracy’ – Medieval Rus
- 2 The Sixteenth Century – Muscovy
- 3 Interregnum
- 4 The Seventeenth Century – The Age of the Zemsky Sobor
- 5 Imperial Russia
- 6 ‘Dress Rehearsal’ – 1902–1906
- 7 The Imperial Duma
- 8 1917
- 9 The Constituent Assembly Elections
- 10 1918
- 11 Civil War
- 12 Soviet Union
- 13 Perestroika – Gorbachev
- 14 1991 – Transfiguration
- 15 ‘The Wild Nineties’ – Yeltsin
- 16 1996 – The Year of the Rats
- 17 Boyar Rule
- 18 ‘Managed Democracy’ – Putin
- Notes
- Bibliography