The debate over Russia’s likely course of development under Putin has paid surprisingly little attention to his openly stated goal of reintegrating Russia with other former Soviet republics.
About the Author
John B. Dunlop, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the author of Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict (1998), The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire (1993), and The New Russian Nationalism (1985).
Since Vladimir Putin’s rise to power at the end of the 1990s, siloviki—the people who work for, or used to work for, Russia’s “ministries of force” have spread to posts…
Under Vladimir Putin, Russia’s ruling class again claims to represent a superior alternative to liberal democracy. How can we theorize this regime? Putinism is a form of autocracy that is conservative,…
