Part One Context
Chapter 1 Gorbachev, perestroika and the end of soviet socialism
Chapter 2 Explaining the end of the soviet socialism: the USSR and the Cold War
Chapter 3 Russian in transition
Chapter 4 Russia and the Russian peoples
Part Two The executive and the legislature
Chapter 5 The Federal Executive: President and Government
Chapter 6 The Federal Assembly
Chapter 7 Russian Federalism
Chapter 8 The Judiciary
Chapter 9 The State in Uniform: the Armed and Security Forces
Part Three Political ideas, parties and the representative process
Chapter 10 Civil Society
Chapter 11 The Mass Media
Chapter 12 Elections and Political Parties
Part Four The policy process and reforming Russia
Chapter 13 Foreign and defence policy
Chapter 14 The Economy and Economic policy
Chapter 15 Society and social policies
Conclusion
Chapter 16 From Yeltsin and Putin to Medvedev
Biography
Catherine Danks
