Russia's Communists At The Crossroads

This book is about the evolution of the communist movement in the Russian Federation from the last years of the U.S.S.R.'s existence through Russia's presidential elections of June July 1996, when the chief contenders were the incumbent president.

Autorentext
Joan Barth Urban is professor of politics at the Catholic University of America. Valerii D. Solovei is senior researcher at the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow.

Inhalt
Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From the Debris of the CPSU: The Rebirth of The Communist Movement -- 3 Unity in Diversity: The Founding of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation -- 4 The CPRF, the Radical CPs, and the Constitutional Crisis of 1993 -- 5 Ziuganovism in Theory and Practice