Archie Brown / Alex Pravda -- Introduction : Putin in perspective / Alex Pravda -- Regimes of political consolidation : the Putin presidency in Soviet and post-Soviet perspective / George W. Breslauer -- Soviet political leadership and Sovietological modelling / Robert Service -- Russian corruption and state weakness in comparative post-communist perspective / Leslie Holmes -- Putin and the attenuation of Russian democracy / Timothy J. Colton -- Majority control and executive dominance : Parliament-President relations in Putin's Russia / Paul Chaisty -- Putin's popularity and its implications for democracy in Russia / Stephen Whitefield -- Putin as patron : cadres policy in the Russian transition / Eugene Huskey -- Putin and the oligarchs : a twosided commitment problem / William Tompson -- Putin's reform of the Russian Federation / Neil Melvin -- Vladimir Putin's political choice : towards bureaucratic authoritarianism / Lilia Shevtsova -- Putin's foreign policy choices / Andrei Grachev

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2. Vladimir Vladimirovich
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