Peter Reddaway is professor of political science. He is author, with Dmitri Glinski, of a book provisionally titled The Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2001).
Vladimir Putin’s reputation as a skillful leader was buoyed by years of economic good fortune. But when his regime faltered, his rule quickly descended into the fearful, repressive, and paranoid…
Hopes for democratization now rest on the shoulders of the young. Who are they, what do they believe, and what are their political leanings? Survey data offer some clues.
Since Vladimir Putin’s rise to power at the end of the 1990s, siloviki—the people who work for, or used to work for, Russia’s “ministries of force” have spread to posts…