Russian Politics and Presidential Power

Transformational Leadership from Gorbachev to Putin

• Author(s): Donald R. Kelley,
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Pages: 312
• ISBN_10: 1483310582
  ISBN_13: 9781483310589
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / World / Russian & Soviet , Political Science / International Relations / General ,

Description:... Russian Politics and Presidential Power takes an in-depth look at the Russian presidency and uses it as a key to understanding Russian politics. Donald R. Kelley looks at presidents from Gorbachev to Putin as authoritarian, transformational leaders who set out to build the future, while sometimes rejecting and reinterpreting the work of past modernizers. Placing the presidency in this context helps readers understand both the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the nature of the Russian Federation that rose in its place. And by setting the presidency within a longer historical context, Kelley shows how the future of the presidency is dependent on other features of the political system.