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

By:

Wilson, Andrew, 1961- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0300095457
9780300095456

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

324.09470905 22

LOC classification:

JN6581 .W47 2005

Online resources:

Contributor biographical information

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.

"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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