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Virtual politics : faking democracy in the post-Soviet world / Andrew Wilson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Edition: First editionDescription: xviii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300095457
  • 9780300095456
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.09470905 22
LOC classification:
  • JN6581 .W47 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- 'Active measures' : a Russian tradition -- Politics as virtuality in the post-Soviet world -- The 'political technologist' : Machiavelli as corporate adviser -- 'Administrative resources' -- Politics as theatre : disguising the state holding company -- How many towers in the Kremlin? the 'many-layered pie' -- Dishing the opposition -- Inventing the opposition : Kremlin parties -- Inventing the opposition : virtual communists -- Conclusions.
Review: "This book uncovers the sophisticated techniques of the 'virtual' political system used to legitimise post-Soviet regimes: entire fake parties, phantom political rivals and 'scarecrow' opponents. And it exposes the paramount role of the mass media in projecting these creations and in falsifying the entire political process."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-318) and index.

Introduction -- 'Active measures' : a Russian tradition -- Politics as virtuality in the post-Soviet world -- The 'political technologist' : Machiavelli as corporate adviser -- 'Administrative resources' -- Politics as theatre : disguising the state holding company -- How many towers in the Kremlin? the 'many-layered pie' -- Dishing the opposition -- Inventing the opposition : Kremlin parties -- Inventing the opposition : virtual communists -- Conclusions.

"This book uncovers the sophisticated techniques of the 'virtual' political system used to legitimise post-Soviet regimes: entire fake parties, phantom political rivals and 'scarecrow' opponents. And it exposes the paramount role of the mass media in projecting these creations and in falsifying the entire political process."--Jacket.

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