Thomas Gomart, Russian Civil-mMilitary Relations: Putin’s Legacy

As Dale Herspring asserts in one of his works, “The Gorbachev period and the collapse of the former Soviet Union raised serious questions about many, if not most, of the traditional assumptions of Western scholars about the nature of politics in Russia”. Echoing this idea in the first pages of his...

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Auteur principal: Filippova, Olga
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Français
Publié: The Journal of power institutions in post-soviet societies 2009
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Résumé:As Dale Herspring asserts in one of his works, “The Gorbachev period and the collapse of the former Soviet Union raised serious questions about many, if not most, of the traditional assumptions of Western scholars about the nature of politics in Russia”. Echoing this idea in the first pages of his Russian civil-military relations: Putin’s legacy, Thomas Gomart states, “From abroad, the map of power in Russia is alwaysdifficult to read.It is nevertheless essential to do so”. Difficulty in rea...