Russia in Transition

Lane, David

Introduction: Russia in transition.

I. The politics of transition: A changing Russian political culture?
The social bases for reform and anti-reform.
The Russian parliament.
The state bureaucracy.
Political parties and elections.
The role of the media; `Women of Russia' and women's representation in Russian politics.

II: Social Classes and Inequalities: Politics and class in the privatisation process.
Privatisation and the new business class.
The working class in post-communist Russia.
The position of women in post-Soviet Russia.
Interaction of political and national-ethnic conflicts in contemporary Russia.
The changing welfare state.
Poverty.