Russian Politics and Law, May 2011 Table of Contents

Volume 49 Number 3 / May-June 2011 of Russian Politics and Law is now available on the M.E. Sharpe web site at http://mesharpe.metapress.com.

This issue contains:

The Future of the Russian Political System: Editor’s Introduction	p.3
Dmitry Gorenburg
The Political Regime in Russia in the 2000s: Special Features, Inherited andAcquired“	p.7
Emil Pain
Democracy 2010: The Past and Future of Pluralism in Russia	p.29
Kirill Rogov
Highly Managed Democracy: The Tandem and the Crisis	p.59
Nikolai Petrov
The Missed Opportunity for a “Revolution of Values”	p.86

Andrei Ryabov

The Future of the Russian Political System: Editor’s Introduction

In this issue of Russian Politics and Law, we continue the analysis of the current state of Russia’s political system that we began in the previous issue. Whereas the previous issue analyzed the development of the system and its character, the authors in this issue focus on the system’s stability, particularly in the context of the 2008–9 global economic crisis. The crisis briefly shook the confidence of Russian political elites, and this is reflected in several of the articles printed here. The period of severe economic crisis proved to be relatively brief in Russia, however, and by early 2010 leading politicians had regained their confidence and largely ended various experiments in liberalization that had been undertaken when the economic situation was at its worst.