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Bureaucracy and the Post-Soviet Political Regimes

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Richard SAKWA

Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent and an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House; one of the UK’s leading scholars of Russian politics and a noted expert in the field of Eastern European communist and post-communist politics; member of the Advisory Boards of the Institute of Low and Public Policy in Moscow, a member of the Eurasian Political Studies Networks, and a member of Valdai International Discussion Club. Prof. Sakwa has published extensively on Soviet, Russian and post-communist affairs. His books include: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 (1999); Postcommunism, (1999); Chechnya: From Past to Future (2005); Russian Politics and Society (4th edn 2008); Putin: Russia’s Choice (2nd edn 2008); The Quality of Freedom: Khodorkovsky, Putin and the Yukos Affair (2009). He has just published The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism, and the Medvedev Succession (2010). Current research interests include democratic development in Russia, nature of postcommunism and global challenges facing the former communist countries.