title: Authoritarian Modernization in Russia
abstract: This issue of Demokratizatsiya presents some of the first results for a research project entitled Choices of Russian Modernization organized by the Finnish Center of Excellence in Russian Studies. (1) While Russia has by 2014 abandoned the very discourse of modernization, which was so popular during Dmitry Medvedev's presidency (2008-12), the time is ripe to discuss the continuing need for in Russia after the Soviet collapse and its likely consequences. idea of achieving major economic and socia