Power and legitimacy  challenges from Russia /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Per-Arne Bodin, Stefan Hedlund and Elena Namli. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2013. 
 - x, 245 p. :  ill. 
 - Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series ;  39 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Dimensions of Russia: developments after the USSR / Klaus von Beyme -- Never show weakness: how faking autocracy legitimates Putin's hold on power / Stephen Holmes -- Legitimizing the Russian executive: identity, technocracy, and performance / Eugene Huskey -- Legitimacy of power and security of property / Stefan Hedlund -- Capitalism and Russian democracy / Boris Kapustin -- Democracy in Russia: problems of legitimacy / Boris Mezhuev -- Power and society in Russia: a value approach to legitimacy / Ruben Apressyan -- Powerful rationality or rationality of power?: reflections on Russian scepticism towards human rights / Elena Namli -- The "cultural/civilizational turn" in post-Soviet identity building / Jutta Scherrer -- Conservative political romanticism in post-Soviet Russia / Andrey Medushevsky -- Bez stali i leni: aesopian language and legitimacy / Irina Sandomirskaia -- Medvedev's new media gambit: the language of power in 140 characters or less / Michael Gorham -- Legitimacy and symphony: on the relation between state and church in post-Soviet Russia / Per-Arne Bodin. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780203108772 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Power (Social sciences)--Russia (Federation)<br/>Executive power--Russia (Federation)<br/>Legitimacy of governments--Russia (Federation)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN530.2.Z9  / P6665 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.30947