Table of Contents

About the Authors Acknowledgments Foreword by H. Haumann Introduction I. Discourses in Russian Politics II. Regime Type and National Identity III. Sovereign Democracy and its Competitors IV. Symbols and the Past V. Outside Perspectives Index

About the Author

Andreas Umland is Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for European Security in the Institute of International Relations at Prague, Principal Researcher of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation at Kyiv, and General Editor of the ibidem-Verlag book series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.

Reviews

[] the authors should be congratulated for producing a volume that successfully challenges much of the outdated Western thinking on the development of post-Soviet Russian politics. -- Political Studies Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2011

"On the whole, the multitude of contributions draw a facet-rich portrait of the Russian identity and of the dependencies between political identity construction and the resulting stability of the political system." -- Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 12.01.2012