Russia--lost in transition : the Yeltsin and Putin legacies / Lilia Shevtsova ; translated by Arch Tait.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-366) and index.

1. Boris Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Who Preserved Tradition -- 2. How Will Yeltsin Go Down in History? -- 3. The Coming of Vladimir Putin: A New Regime to Preserve an Old System -- 4. Imitation Democracy -- 5. Can You Sit and Run at the Same Time? -- 6. Pragmatists versus Idealists -- 7. Should I Stay or Should I Go? -- 8. The Siloviki in Power -- 9. Oligarchy as Myth and Reality -- 10. Liberal Technocrats as an Adornment of the State -- 11. The Triumph of Bureaucratic Capitalism -- 12. Something New: A Nuclear Petro-Power -- 13. The State Shakes Off Its Social Responsibilities -- 14. What Is Behind Russia's New Assertiveness? -- 15. Is Russia Ready to Set Sail Under Its Own Steam? -- 16. How Can We Learn to Be Neighbors? -- 17. Russia and Europe: Condemned to Live Together -- 18. Russia and the United States: In Search of a New Paradigm -- 19. What Went Wrong? -- 20. Bumps in the Road -- 21. The Bush-Putin Legacy -- 22. Unstable Stability, or On Shooting Yourself in the Foot -- 23. What Might Detonate an Explosion? -- 24. Russia: Going Nowhere Fast -- 25. Can the West Help the Russian Liberal Project? -- 26. How to Stop Suicidal Statecraft -- 27. Paradoxes and Hopes -- Political Chronology -- Parliamentary and Presidential Election Results -- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.