When Lenin and the Bolsheviks were shut down after only one session of the Constituent Assembly in the wake of the Russian Revolution, it was said to mark the end of Russia’s one-day experiment with democracy.
However, with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, a true period of democracy was ushered in – and the result was a strange world that is scarcely believable when viewed from the era of Putin.
Political contests were fought between a bewildering array of different parties representing the entire spectrum of beliefs – liberals, communists, nationalists, environmentalists, fascists, social democrats, conservatives, technocrats, separatists, monarchists, women’s parties. Sometimes even combinations of ideologies, like ‘national bolshevism’.
It was an anarchic time of passionate campaigns and contested elections, political assassinations and blackmail, attempts by parliament to impeach the president and by the president to literally bomb parliament. But most of the political fighting in the 1990s was done via the ballot box or on television.
A fascinated witness of Russian politics, Kenneth MacInnes lived in the country through this unique and exciting era. This book travels through the ten-year period where Russia did democracy, and looks at the chances of it ever happening again.
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Kenneth MacInnes has edited or translated more than 350 books from Russian into English, and has translated several works of English literature into Russian – including the novels of George Orwell. He has read papers on Anglo-Russian history at the annual foreign language conference of the Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg.
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. When Lenin and the Bolsheviks shut down the Constituent Assembly after only one session, it was said to mark the end of Russias one-day experiment with democracy. However, with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, a true period of democracy was ushered in creating a strange world scarcely believable when viewed from the era of Vladimir Putin. A fascinated witness of Russian politics, Kenneth MacInnes lived in the country through this unique and exciting era. His book not only chronicles this ten-year period, but also reveals all the other times in history when Russia led the world in democratic freedoms and popular representation. During the Middle Ages, the republic of Novgorod was the worlds largest democracy. The national parliament established by Ivan the Terrible elected tsars, while the Russian Empire was the first place in Europe where women voted in local and national elections. In 1917, the Provisional Government passed the freest electoral law ever written. This book covers everything from the popular democratic struggles of 1612 and 1991 to the local republics set up during wars, revolutions and foreign invasions. It describes how Lenin and Stalin stood in democratic elections, the day Yeltsins tanks bombed parliament, the history of Western interference in Russian polls and why Putin has such a deep aversion to free ballots. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Artikel-Nr. GOR013494856
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