Russia 2025 Scenarios for the Russian Future [Hardcover]

Russia 2025 offers a compelling insight into Russia's future by exploring thematic scenarios ranging from politics to demographics. The widening rift between a modernizing, post-Communist society and a paternalistic government will ultimately shape developments in the coming years and will impact on state-society and Center-periphery relations.Introduction; Maria Lipman and Nikolay Petrov 1. Forty Years in the Desert: The Political Cycles of Post-Soviet Transition; Kirill Rogov 2. After Bolotnaia: Defining a 'New Normal' in Russian Public Politics; Samuel A. Greene 3. Four Russias: Human Potential and Social Differentiation of Russian Regions and Cities; Natalia Zubarevich 4. Russia's Population until 2025; Mikhail Denisenko 5. Government Interference: An Institutional Trap; Boris Grozovsky 6. Russian Regime Dynamics through 2025: Comparative Thinking about the Future; Henry E. Hale 7. Regime Changes in Russia: Trajectories of Political Evolution; Vladimir Gel'man 8. Frameworks of Political System Development; Boris Makarenko 9. From a Federation of Corporations to a Federation of Regions; Nikolay Petrov 10. Becoming Modern Russian Style; Richard Sakwa 11. The Kremlin Turns Ideological: Where this New Direction Could Lead; Maria Lipman 12. The World After Democracy Won; Fedor Lukyanov 13. Russia and the World: The Path to 2025; Fedor Lukyanov Conclusion- The Stalinization of Putinism: A Doomed Effort; Maria Lipman and Nikolay Petrov

'In Russia 2025 an all-star cast of Russia-watchers provides an in-depth examination of the societal, governmental, economic and political forces that will shape Russia over the next decade and a half. This is the essential guide for anyone trying to figure out what lies ahead for Putin's Russia.' Fiona Hill, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution, USA

'Russia-2025 is a fascinating book. It captures the complexity and uncertainty of the moment and the hard choices Kremlin and Russian socl¢