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• W4379377332 abstract "SEER, 94, 4, October 2016 774 concerned with the nature of authoritarian regimes, but to all who take an interest in life in ‘Europe’s last dictatorship’. It may be warmly recommended. London Arnold McMillin Gel´man, Vladimir. Authoritarian Russia: Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 2015. xiv + 208 pp. Notes. Index. $25.95 (paperback). There are many observers of Russian politics whose thoughts merit our serious attention, but few observers have the intellectual prowess or practical on-thescene experience that Vladimir Gel´man brings to his assessment of Russian political realities. The informed student of Russia takes any work by Gel´man seriously, and he does not disappoint in this important and insightful book. This volume should be mandatory reading for all students of Russian politics. In a mere 154 pages of narrative text, Gel´man provides an analytical tour d’horizon of the El´tsin-Putin period polity and society. The author deals with politicians, institutions and policies, and he does so with confidence and persuasiveness. The volume is dense, yet the arguments are accessible. The discussion is thorough, yet amazingly this academic monograph at times proceeds as a page-turner in drawing the reader into a lively and engaging narrative. The reader may or may not agree with Gel´man’s overarching set of arguments and interpretations, but I found myself in general agreement and intellectually enriched. I was stimulated, motivated to revisit some of my own assumptions and interpretations, and even drawn to make some adjustments to my own intellectual compass in tackling the complex Russian polity. I expect many readers of this book will react similarly. This book offers all readers many riches, some that might be expected, but others that will be unexpected. What does Gel´man attempt and succeed in doing in this important monograph? In a nutshell, he explains how and why Russia did not become a democracy after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The book’s title reflects Gel´man’s ultimate judgment that Putin’s Russia moved to become an authoritarian system. Gel´man’s analysis is multifaceted, rich in detail and compelling as he builds his set of arguments. He persuasively illuminates the efforts of political elites to maximize their power, focusing on more than two decades of political struggle. Opening his narrative with recollections of his own personal encounters with Dmitri Medvedev and the Putin team, Gel´man makes it clear that authoritarianism was not the inevitable result of Russian political struggles in the 1990s and early 2000s. Russia’s political REVIEWS 775 development was a product of profound socioeconomic forces, chance, dilemmas of new institutional design and more conscious choices of elites. As Gel´man meticulously moves through the various stages of Russia’s evolution from 1992–2015, he compellingly shows how events and forces came together to shape an increasingly authoritarian reality. What Gel´man carefully evaluates, overall, is the developmental trajectory of the post-Soviet Russian state. The result is a strong presentation that constitutes a major contribution to our scholarship on Russian politics. A brief review permits only cursory attention to even the most central elements of post-Soviet Russian political history. Suffice it to make mention of the governing Putin team, which has dominated Russia for more than fifteen years, and which will continue to shape the polity for years to come. Gel´man makes clear that the first Putin presidency (2000–08) entailed two conditions, markedly absent in the preceding El´tsin period, that were central to Russia’s evolution to authoritarianism: 1) the country’s high economic growth; combined with 2) the Putin team’s ability to secure a monopoly over political power. Gel´man convincingly argues that the country’s improving economic condition was central to the Putin team’s ability to realize — and then maintain — a position of hegemonic political control. Gel´man is quite articulate in illuminating the Putin team’s ‘imposed consensus’ on the elite that relied on an effective use of both carrots and sticks. But if Gel´man details the effectiveness of the Putin team in taking hold of the political..." @default.
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