Highly regarded for its comprehensive coverage, up-to-date scholarship, and comparative framework,Politics in Russiais an authoritative overview of Russiars"s contemporary political system and its recent evolution. Area specialist Thomas Remington focuses on four areas of change in this textstate structure, regime change, economic transformation, and identityto offer a dynamic context for analyzing the post-Soviet era. With a consistent emphasis on the intersection of politics and economics and the tension between authoritarian and democratic trends, no other text guides students through the complexities and ambiguities of Russian politics today likePolitics in Russia.