Time to pay the bills: Presidential elections and political stabilization in Russia

Problems of Post-Communism

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 34-42

  Brovkin, Vladimir ^a  

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EID: 0031278685     PISSN: 10758216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10758216.1997.11655760     Document Type: Review

References (30)

1. International Republican Institute, "Russia: Presidential Elections Observation Report," June 16, 1996, July 3, 1996 (Washington, DC, 1996).
2. Reuters, "Russia Wants Interpol Type Organization" (April 4, 1997).
3. Ralph Clem and Peter Craumer, "Roadmap to Victory: Boris Yeltsin and the Russian Presidential Elections of 1996," Post-Soviet Geography & Economics 37, no. 6 (June 1996): 335-54.
4. Segodnia (June 13, 1996).
5. Louise Shelley used this term in her "Statement before House Committee on International Relations. Hearings on Post-Soviet Organized Crime, 30 April 1996." See Trends in Organized Crime 2, no. 1 (Fall 1996): 13; Olga Kryshtanovskaya and Stephen White, "From Soviet Nomenklatura to Russian Elite," Europe-Asia Studies 48, no. 5 (July 1996): 721.
6. Louise Shelley used this term in her "Statement before House Committee on International Relations. Hearings on Post-Soviet Organized Crime, 30 April 1996." See Trends in Organized Crime 2, no. 1 (Fall 1996): 13; Olga Kryshtanovskaya and Stephen White, "From Soviet Nomenklatura to Russian Elite," Europe-Asia Studies 48, no. 5 (July 1996): 721.
7. See, for example, an article on the black market for weapons in Russia, in Segodnia (June 26, 1996).
8. Anatol Lieven, "Russia's Military Nadir," The National Interest 44 (September 1996): 29.
9. For an insightful and informed discussion of Chubais's campaign, see Michael McFaul, "Russian 1996 Presidential Elections," Post-Soviet Affairs 12, no. 4 (October 1996): 318-51.
10. Laura Belin, "Private Media Come Full Circle," Transition 2, no. 21 (1996): 64.
11. According to some estimates, Yeltsin's campaign cost 2.5 trillion rubles. Gleb Cherkasov, "Presidential Election Results: An Analysis," Prizm 2, no. 13 (July 1996).
12. Daniel Treisman, "Why Yeltsin Won," Foreign Affairs 75, no. 5 (September/October 1996): 72.
13. Gleb Cherkassov, "Manipulation of the Media in the Russian Presidential Race," Prizm 2, no. 14 (August 1996).
14. For communist discussion of fake communist fabrications, see Pravda Rossii (June 13, 1996).
15. For the text of the program, see Pravda Moskvy (June 1996).
16. For a sampling of nationalist anti-Semitic anti-Yeltsin campaign materials, almost any issue of the newspaper Zavtra would do. See, for example, Zavtra (June 1996).
17. See, for example, a report on the Congress of Patriotic forces, in Pravda Moskvy (June 12, 1996).
18. For Yavlinskii campaign materials, see "Ia vybiraiu Iavlinskogo" (I Choose Yavlinskii), a special issue of Moskovskie vorota (June 1996).
19. Ibid.
20. Aleksandr Lebed, "Pravda i poriadok" (Truth and Order) (Campaign leaflet).
21. Sergei Osnobishchev, "General Lebed as a Product of Yet Another Stage of the Struggle Against Communism in Russia," Prizm 2, no. 13 (July 1996).
22. Jamestown Monitor (June 17, 1996).
23. See, for example, Argumenty i fakty (June 25, 1996).
24. In Rostov-on-Don and Riazan 20 percent, Voronezh 18 percent, Tver 17 percent, and Cheliabinsk 20 percent. For detailed data by province, see Nezavisimaia gazeta (June 29, 1996).
25. Nezavisimaia gazeta (June 21, 1996).
26. Marie Mendras, "Yeltsin and the Great Divide in Russian Society," East European Constitutional Review 5, nos. 2-3 (Spring/Summer 1996): 53.
27. Moskovskii komsomolets (July 5, 1996).
28. Andrey Zhukov, "The Election, Viewed Through the Prism of Regional Voting Preferences," Prizm 2, no. 13 (July 1996).
29. Mendras, "Yeltsin and the Great Divide," p. 53. See note 25.
30. New Republic (July 8, 1996), p. 10.