Inside Russian Politics

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NEW SERIES: INSIDE GLOBAL POLITICS

Is there more toRussian politics than Putin

Inside Russian Politics isan intelligent, critical, and engaging account of the realities of contemporaryRussian politics. It is distinctive in widening our view of Russia beyondthe standard account of global power plays and resurgent authoritarian menace.Putin matters, but he is not Russia. Russian military adventurism has had amajor effect on contemporary international affairs, but assessing its aims andprojecting future intentions and impacts requires analysis within a contextdeeper than the stock 'Cold War renewed' story.

The holistic approach ofthis book facilitates our understanding of power politics in and beyond theKremlin and of Russian policy on the international stage. Revealing the Russiabeyond Moscow and the central figures around Putin, Edwin Bacon focuses onRussia's political present, not to ignore the past but to move beyond clichand misleading historical analogy to reveal the contemporary -and future -concerns of Russia's current generation of politicians.

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Edwin Bacon is Reader in Comparative Politics at Birkbeck, University of London and the holder of the Birkbeck Excellence in Teaching award. He has published six books on Russian politics, history and society. He has also worked as Senior Research Officer for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as Parliamentary Special Adviser to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.