After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia

by Daniel Simon Treisman

Book Overview

After the Deluge offers a new, provocative interpretation of Russia's struggle in the 1990s to construct a democratic system of government in the largest and most geographically divided country in the world. The Russian Federation that emerged from the Soviet Union faced dissolution as the leaders of Russia's constituent units in the early 1990s defied Moscow's authority, declared sovereign states on their territory, refused to remit taxes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472088319
• ISBN13: 9780472088317
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"