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Mary McAuley. Russia's Politics of Uncertainty. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xx, 351 pp. $64.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Mary McAuley. Russia's Politics of Uncertainty. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University... on the flowering of first movements, and then parties, during the Gorbachev era. Thus the book enriches a literature including Hosking, Aves and Duncan, McFaul and Markov, and Saivetz and J o n e s . Urban et al. carry the story of t h e s e institutions further forward into the EI'tsin era than others have done, and this alone would make it a valuable contribution. However the book g o e s far beyond this. Urban is c o n c e r n e d to demon- strate the factors that both permitted and e n c o u r a g e d the rebirth, and also s h a p e d the character of, the reemergent civil and political society. He a r g u e s that the nature of the Communist polity and society during the pre-perestroika era s h a p e d the character of that era in general, and t h e character of the emergent mass politics in particular. His central argument is that, contrary to most scholarly belief, the Soviet state, and its particular political institutions were weak, rather than strong, dominated by personal http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Mary McAuley. Russia's Politics of Uncertainty. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xx, 351 pp. $64.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Miller, Arthur H.
Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 33 (2-4): 424 – Jan 1, 1999
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© 1999 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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on the flowering of first movements, and then parties, during the Gorbachev era. Thus the book enriches a literature including Hosking, Aves and Duncan, McFaul and Markov, and Saivetz and J o n e s . Urban et al. carry the story of t h e s e institutions further forward into the EI'tsin era than others have done, and this alone would make it a valuable contribution. However the book g o e s far beyond this. Urban is c o n c e r n e d to demon- strate the factors that both permitted and e n c o u r a g e d the rebirth, and also s h a p e d the character of, the reemergent civil and political society. He a r g u e s that the nature of the Communist polity and society during the pre-perestroika era s h a p e d the character of that era in general, and t h e character of the emergent mass politics in particular. His central argument is that, contrary to most scholarly belief, the Soviet state, and its particular political institutions were weak, rather than strong, dominated by personal

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