Understanding Putin's Russia

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Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics for more than two decades, and in doing so, has reversed what appeared in the 1990s to be a democratic future for that country. This class investigates how and why the communist legacy and traumatic process of transformation after 1991 created capitalism but not democracy. It examines not only domestic developments and institutions, but the ways that global processes and individual choices have created a new form of brutal and personalized authoritarianism in Russia that for years has appeared to have broad-based support.