Russian Politics Today

Susanne A. Wengle is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and Professor of Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University. Her research examines post-Soviet political economy and engages with the study of markets in that context and beyond. Her publications include Post-Soviet Power: State-Led Development and Russia's Marketization (2014) and Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food (2022).

• 1. Stability and fragility in contemporary Russian politics Susanne A. Wengle; Part I. Political Institutions: 2. Russia's superpresidency Jody LaPorte; 3. Party politics and voting in Russia Ora John Reuter and David Szakonyi; 4. Law, legal enforcement, and the courts Lauren A. McCarthy; 5. The pendulum of center–region relations in Russia Evgenia Olimpieva; 6. Ethnicity and religion in Russia Şener Aktürk; 7. The politics of gender and sexuality Alexander Sasha Kondakov and Alexandra Novitskaya; Part II. Political Economy: 8. Property rights: forging the institutional foundations for Russia's market economy Jordan Gans-Morse; 9. Russia's oil and gas industry: Soviet inheritance and post-Soviet evolution Mikhail Strokan and Rudra Sil; 10. Russia's oligarchs Stanislav Markus; 11. Inequality and social policy in Russia Ilya Matveev and Sarah Wilson Sokhey; 12. Economic policies and Russia's global economic integration Laura Solanko; Part III. Politics and Society: 13. Russia's conservative forces and the state: a dynamic balancing act Marlene Laruelle; 14. The Russian media Tetyana Lokot, Anton Shirikov and Alexandra Brankova; 15. Protest in Russia: discovering power Samuel A. Greene and Asya Tsaturyan; 16. The politics of the environment in Russia: extraction, climate change, and Indigenous rights in the Russian Arctic Laura A. Henry; 17. Race and migration in Russia Caress Schenk; Part IV. Foreign and Security Policy; 18. The foreign policy of an aspiring great power Andrei P. Tsygankov; 19. The Russian armed forces Tracey German; 20. Russia's war in Ukraine Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel.

'With chapters by many leading scholars and some important Russian perspectives, Russian Politics Today surveys the major problems of contemporary Russian politics with fresh insight. It is an excellent first book for students new to Russian politics.' Paul D'Anieri, University of California