Elections and Political Order in Russia
The Implications of the 1993 Elections to the Federal
Assembly
Edited by Peter Lentini, Monash University,
Australia
In december 1993 Russia held its first mutiparty election
in over 75 years in the hope that it would usher in
a new democratic political order. However, the success
of right-wing populist Vladimir Zhirinovsky's Liberal
Democartic Party of Russia and other anti-reform forces
shocked the world.
This book provides the first volume-length analysis
of the 1993 elections to the Federal Assembly, focusing
on the main events and players of the campaign and examining
their impact on contemporary Russian politics and society.
Investigates the extent to which the elections could
be considered 'free and fair', by assessing the programmes
and campaign techniques of the competing electoral associations,
patterns of voting, the influence of the media, the
significance of local elites and the role of the Yeltsin
administration.
A study of electoral traditions in tsarist and Soviet
Russia sets the voting within its historical context,
and the legacy of Soviet political practices and attitudes
is considered. In addition, assesses the development
of the post-Soviet political order. It looks at the
evolving party system and the new power relationships
being created and, in particular, investigates the important
role of the presidency in the consolidation of a stable
democracy in Russia.
Contents
List of contributors - Acknowledgements - Introduction
- Part I: Elections in Russia and the USSR: A historical
overview - Part II: The 1993 Election Campaign
- Part III: Influences and trends of the 1993
campaign - Part IV: The framework of a new political
order - Appendix: Electoral associations and
their programmes - Index
1995
292 pages
ISBN 978-1-85866-017-2 cloth $29.95 / €25.95 /
£17.95
ISBN 978-1-85866-018-9 paperback $16.95 / €13.95
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