12 M +
0

Timothy Frye
Tantor Audio

Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia

Rate this book Arrow Icon

Key Metrics

AuthorTimothy Frye
PublisherTantor Audio
PublishedDec 09 2021
Book FormatAudio
ISBN-139798200158836
Dimensions-
Weight-
BISAC
CategoriesPolitical Science > World - Russian & Former Soviet Union
LanguageEnglish

List Price:

Save:

$0 ($%)

Format:

Audio

Shipping

Ships from:

Estimated Arrival:

Available Copies:

0 Copies

Ready To Buy:

Back Order

Secure Transaction

Sold By:

Readara.com

Add to My Wishlist

Book Description

Why we need to look beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is remarkably similar to other autocracies--and recognizing this illuminates the inherent limits to Putin's power. Weak Strongman challenges the conventional wisdom about Putin's Russia, highlighting the difficult trade-offs that confront the Kremlin on issues ranging from election fraud and repression to propaganda and foreign policy. Drawing on three decades of his own on-the-ground experience and research as well as insights from a new generation of social scientists that have received little attention outside academia, Timothy Frye reveals how much we overlook about today's Russia when we focus solely on Putin or Russian exceptionalism. Frye brings a new understanding to a host of crucial questions: How popular is Putin? Is Russian propaganda effective? Why are relations with the West so fraught? Can Russian cyber warriors really swing foreign elections? In answering these and other questions, Frye offers a highly accessible reassessment of Russian politics that highlights the challenges of governing Russia and the nature of modern autocracy.

Author Bio

Timothy Frye (Ph.D., Columbia, 1997) is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy. Professor Frye received a B.A. in Russian language and literature from Middlebury College, an M.I.A. from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia.

His research and teaching interests are in comparative politics and political economy with a focus on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He is the author of Brokers and Bureaucrats: Building Markets in Russia, which won the 2001 Hewett Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and Building States and Markets after Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy, which won a Best Book Prize from the APSA Comparative Democratization section in 2010; and Property Rights and Property Wrongs: How Power, Institutions, and Norms Shape Economic Conflict in Russia, which was published in 2017.

His most recent book is Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia. He co-directs the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher Economics School in Moscow and edits Post-Soviet Affairs.

Source: Columbia University

Videos

No Videos

Community reviews

Write a Review

No Community reviews