TY - GEN T1 - Misinterpreting modern Russia A1 - Sergi, Bruno S. LA - English PP - New York, New York ; London England PB - Continuum YR - 2009 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn880459107 AB - When President Vladimir Putin ascended to the Kremlin at the end of the 1990s, he had to struggle with the after-effects of Boris Yeltsin''s political agenda: outrageous corruption, endless social injustice, and deeply entrenched interests dating back to Gorbachev and beyond. From the outset, Putin saw his task as leveling out the political scenery. Discontent had been building up among ordinary Russians on these consequences of the dramatically unstable 1990s. Stabilization of the political system and cleaning up the widespread corruption were Putin''s aims, and the Russian people supported h. OP - 290 CN - DK510.763 .S474 2009eb SN - 9781441101549 SN - 1441101543 SN - 1322085900 SN - 9781322085906 SN - 9781441106797 KW - Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, : 1952- KW - Russia (Federation) : Politics and government : 1991- KW - Russia (Federation) : Social conditions : 1991- KW - Russia (Federation) : Economic conditions : 1991- KW - Russie : Conditions sociales : 1991- KW - Russie : Conditions économiques : 1991- KW - HISTORY : Europe : Eastern. KW - HISTORY : Europe : Former Soviet Republics. KW - HISTORY : Europe : Russia & the Former Soviet Union. KW - Economic history KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Since 1991 ER -