title: How Russians Understand the New Russia
abstract: The issues that are the most and the least divisive in Russia The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 created a new Russia, with new territorial boundaries and new political and economic systems. The hybrid political economy that emerged incorporated commitments to markets and democracy that were undermined by the state&rsquo;s economic interventions and authoritarian restrictions. In this book, Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield argue that the hybridity of the post-Soviet system provided a st
journal: Princeton University Press eBooks