Cover Putin's Russia
series "Universale Paperbacks il Mulino"
pp. 216, 978-88-15-28655-0
publication year 2020

MARA MORINI

Putin's Russia

How can we define the political regime established by Vladimir Putin, described as “the most powerful person in the world” by Forbes in 2013? What are the social and political consequences arising from his “dictatorship of the law”? And, above all, how do the political, cultural and institutional legacies of Russia’s past continue to shape its society and political behaviour? Access to primary sources in Russian and strong field research experience help the author explain the unfamiliar internal dynamics of Russia, a country which is a main actor on many stages of contemporary geopolitics: the war on terrorism in Chechnya, the clash with Ukraine over the annexation/invasion of Crimea, cyberwarfare with Trump’s America, spying in Britain.

Mara Morini teaches Politics of Eastern Europe, Comparative Politics and Political Science at the University of Genoa. She was an OSCE-ODIHR election observer at the parliamentary (2003) and presidential (2018) elections in Saint Petersburg, Murmansk and Kazan. She has been a visiting professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the High School of Economics in Moscow.

Introduzione
Parte prima: Le istituzioni
I. Il presidente della Federazione russa
II. Il governo
III. Il parlamento
Parte seconda: Elezioni e partiti
IV. I partiti politici: il caso di Russia unita
V. Le elezioni presidenziali (1996-2018)
VI. Le elezioni parlamentari (1993-2016)
Parte terza: Economia e società
VII. Popolo, cultura, nazione
VIII. I mass media e la «RuNet sovrana»
IX. Il capitalismo patrimoniale
Parte quarta: La russia contro il resto del mondo
X. L’evoluzione della politica estera di Putin
XI. La sfida agli Stati Uniti e all’Unione europea
XII. Lo spazio post-sovietico, il Medio Oriente e la Cina
Conclusioni
Ringraziamenti
Riferimenti bibliografici