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Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia. By Samuel A. Greene and Graeme B. Robertson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. vii, 287 pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. $30.00, hard bound. - The Putin System: An Opposing View. By Grigory Yavlinsky. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xx, 231 pp. Notes. Index. $28.00, hard bound. - Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy. By Anders Åslund. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. vii, 324 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. $35.00, hard bound.

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Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia. By Samuel A. Greene and Graeme B. Robertson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. vii, 287 pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. $30.00, hard bound.
The Putin System: An Opposing View. By Grigory Yavlinsky. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xx, 231 pp. Notes. Index. $28.00, hard bound.
Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy. By Anders Åslund. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. vii, 324 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. $35.00, hard bound.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2020

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Slavic Review , Volume 79 , Issue 1 , Spring 2020 , pp. 163 - 170
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References

1 Åslund, Russia’s Crony Capitalism, 1.

2 Ibid., 19, 20.

3 Ibid., 20.

4 Ibid., 131.

5 Ibid., 39.

6 See Philip Hanson, “Reiderstvo: Asset Grabbing in Russia,” Chatham House, March 2014, https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/papers/view/198133 (accessed March 3, 2020).

7 The most recent analysis is Mark Galleoti, The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia (Yale, 2018).

8 Åslund, 152.

9 Ibid., 152.

10 Ibid., 2.

11 Ibid., 2.

12 Ibid., 38.

13 Ibid., 7.

14 Greene and Robertson, Putin v. the People, 11–12.

15 Ibid., 7.

16 Ibid., 2.

17 Ibid., 144.

18 Ibid., 116.

19 Ibid., 149.

20 Ibid., 151.

21 Ibid., 152.

22 Ibid., 147.

23 Ibid., 11–12.

24 Ibid., 15–16.

25 Ibid.

26 Ibid

27 Ibid.

28 Ibid., 15.

29 Yavlinsky, The Putin System: An Opposing View, 33.

30 Shleifer, Andrei and Treisman, Daniel, Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia (MIT, 2000), 153Google Scholar.

31 Yavlinsky, ix.

32 Ibid., 7–8.

33 Ibid., 46.

34 Bryn Rosenfeld, “Varieties of Middle Class Growth and Democratic Preference Formation” (PhD diss., Princeton University, 2015).

35 Yavlinsky, ix.

36 Åslund, 4.

37 Ibid., 13.

38 Ibid., 14.

39 Ibid., 5, 131.

40 Ibid., 5.

41 Ibid., 251.

42 Greene and Robertson, 231.

43 Ibid., 220.

44 Ibid., 220.

45 Ibid., 214, 217.

46 Ibid., 90.

47 Ibid., 208–209.

48 Yavlinsky, 190.

49 Ibid., 25, 112.

50 Ibid., 111.

51 Ibid., xv.