In Developments in Russian Politics 8; leading experts provide a broad-ranging assessment of Putin's third term in power. All essays are either new or comprehensively rewritten for this volume; and cover executive power; parliamentary politics; the electoral process; the rule of law; foreign policy; the economy; and the military. They also address matters concerning Russia's media and political communication in the digital age; society and social divisions; protest and challenge; and future trajectories for Russian politics. Developments in Russian Politics remains the first-choice introduction to the politics of the world’s largest nation.Contributors. Vladimir Gel'man; Henry E. Hale; Philip Hanson; Kathryn Hendley; Margot Light; Jennifer Mathers; Ian McAllister; Sarah Oates; Thomas F. Remington; Graeme Robertson; Richard Sakwa; Darrell Slider; Svetlana Stephenson; Stephen White; John P. Willerton
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy CustomerPerfect condition6 of 27 people found the following review helpful. Very disappointingBy jfpessoaThe chosen gay jargon of the "closet" is so woefully inadequate to the historical condition of gays dealing with passing for straight. I hoped this book might have really seized on the similarities in the dilemma of passing as it affected Blacks and gay people; but unfortunately this isn't the case.The author seems to begin with those intentions; but after presenting some interesting thoughts she simply follows them up with a set of four jargon-laden book reports on works of fiction and that's that. What she has produced could be a text for yet another multicultural lit course; but it sadly misses as a discussion of the phenonmenon of gay passing. The survivors of the era in which gay passing was a norm for homosexuals are fewer and fewer. And the passive imagery of "the closet" remains in place; misleading and inappropriate as is to much of the gay past.It is a shame that there are not traditionally-oriented gay historians dealing with the actual dynamics of gay passing as it affected the lives of millions of men and women. This doesn't come close to being that book.17 of 20 people found the following review helpful. New Queer StudiesBy A CustomerThis book is a largely successful attempt to blend together two of the most interesting theoretical innovations--queer theory and critical race theory. When I first purchased this book; I was expecting to struggle with a difficult theorectical text but found the book as a whole to be accessable. The first three chapters in particularly offer careful nuanced readings of scientific; literary and movie texts. As the author states; however; her readings require that the reader accept different models of historical proof as a queer reading generally examines the spaces in between texts. While as a somewhat old fashioned historian; I would have liked to have seen better connections; i.e. a more precise cause and effect relationship between the texts she examines but in fairness it is not her intention to establish such relationships. I nonetheless found her analysis provacitive--I really mean this word and am not simply using it to dismiss the work as some academics do--and suitable for the classroom. My hope is that her work will provoke more study and that the relationship between queer theory and critical race theory will continue to produce books like this one.
