Russia's political regime: Neo-Soviet authoritarianism and patronal presidentialism

Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 63-87

  Mommsen, Margareta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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