Inside Putin's Russia: Can There Be Reform Without Democracy? - Brossura

Jack, Andrew

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ISBN 10: 0195189094 ISBN 13: 9780195189094

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Riassunto

International views of Russia have changed drastically in the last decade, due in part to the leadership of the decidedly pro-Western President Yeltsin. It was not without concern that we saw the next elected leader pulled from the ranks of the former KGB.
Andrew Jack, former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, uses in-depth research and years of journalistic experience to bring us the first full picture of Vladimir Putin. Jack describes how Putin grew to become the most powerful man in Russia, defying domestic and foreign expectations and presiding over a period of strong economic growth, significant restructuring, and rising international prestige. Despite criticism of his handling of the war in Chechnya and of the controls he introduced on parliament and the media, Putin has united Russian society and maintained extraordinarily high popularity.
Inside Putin's Russia digs behind the rumors and speculation, illuminating Putin's character and the changing nature of the Russia he leads. It highlights some of the more troubling trends as he consolidates his leadership during a second presidential term marred by the Beslan tragedy, the attacks on Yukos and Russian policy towards Ukraine. Now with a new Epilogue by the author, this invaluable book offers important insights for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of Russia.

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A fluent, detailed and balanced account of Russian power politics, with a lively emphasis on the Kremlin's onslaught against independent media and stroppy tycoons. (The Economist)

In describing the big picture, Jack achieves a fine balance, criticizing without animosity and making the right allowances for peculiarities of history and culture. (Financial Times)

Gives even experienced Russia-watchers a better perspective on the man and the milieu he operates in. [Jack] writes with care, more like an historian than an anecdote laden, self-important journalist a l'Americaine. (Roger Fontaine, Washington Times)

Lively, fluent and well-informed. (Guardian)

Andrew Jack has been responsible for some of the best coverage of Russian affairs in recent years. Inside Putin's Russia is intelligent, meticulously researched and readable: everything a political biography should be. (Sunday Times)

In the most comprehensive account of Putin's first term in office now in print, Jack presents a judicious account of his achievements: tax reform, balanced budgets, sharply reduced international lending and a booming economy.... As Jack details in several excellent chapters, Putin continued a brutal and ineffective war in Chechnya, acquired de facto control of all major national television networks, turned both houses of parliament into rubber stamps, arbitrarily jailed or exiled political foes, rigged regional elections, arrested outspoken journalists, weakened political parties and increased the role of the FSB (the successor organization to the KGB). (Michael McFaul, Washington Post Book World)

An excellent (and wary) political and economic overview of an often opaque U.S. ally. (Publishers Weekly)

Jack's book is, as the title suggests, an attempt to see Russia from within, to understand it on its own terms. Jack is not sympathetic to the regime, but he is fascinated by the country.... We learn a huge amount about Putin's Russia along the way.... The restraint and the skepticism that run through Jack's book do even more credit to the author now that Putin's credentials are going up in smoke. (Robert Cottrell, New York Review of Books)

Andrew Jack could hardly have picked a better time to come out with a book on Vladimir Putin. It helps contextualize some of the new concerns about Putin's leadership and about whether Russia, once seemingly on the path to democracy, is lurching instead toward dictatorship. Jack puts the president's moves into perspective. (Anna Kuchment, Newsweek International)

A helpful overview of the Putin era since 2000.... Jack, who is Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, gives us a country with 'chill breezes returning from the past,' possibly headed toward a new political Ice Age. (Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer)

L'autore:

Andrew Jack is a journalist for the Financial Times, currently based in London. He was based in Russia from 1998 to 2004, covering the end of the Yeltsin era, the rise to power of Vladimir Putin, and his entire period in office.

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• Editore: Oxford University Press, USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0195189094
• ISBN 13: 9780195189094
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 388