{"product_id":"9789819237524","title":"Strong State Dilemma The State Rebuilding and Political Transition of Russia","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe Steppe and Beyond: Studies on Central Asia\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eStrong State Dilemma\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe State Rebuilding and Political Transition of Russia\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHaiting Fei\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical Science \/ Public Policy \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\"\u003eThis book examines Russia’s strong-state dilemma: why Russia repeatedly seeks to overcome crisis, disorder, and failed transition by rebuilding a strong state, yet keeps falling back into a cycle in which restored control does not become stable governing capacity. It argues that post-Soviet political change should be understood not simply as failed democratization, but as a sequence of state-power loss, state rebuilding, and a new center-region balance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\"\u003eFocusing on Russia’s 85 federal subjects from 1991 to 2022, the book draws on an original database of 400+ governors, president-governor meeting transcripts, local media, elite biographies and interviews, institutional histories, formal rules, and electoral data. It shows that Russian state rebuilding followed an uneven strategy: the state did not restore itself everywhere, at every level, or in every sphere at once, but re-entered critical regions, sectors, and institutional junctures selectively and in stages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eThe book identifies two linked mechanisms: the separation of governors from governance tools, and the disconnect between elite selection and governance capacity. Through Samara, Sverdlovsk Oblast, St. Petersburg, and Moscow, it shows how different regional paths gradually converged into similar center-region structures. Its central conclusion is that the future of Russian state rebuilding depends on whether the state can build formal institutions capable of effectively constraining, organizing, and guiding political elites.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eHaiting \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eFei\u003c\/span\u003e is a political scientist, Tenured Associate Professor at the School of Government, Peking University, and Deputy Director of  PKURCCP and the Institute of Urban Governance. He received his PhD in History from MSU. His research focuses on transitional politics, political thought, state theory, and the politics of science and technology. He has published the monograph \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003eФедеративные идеи в политической теории русского народничества\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e and numerous articles in Chinese, English, and Russian.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11 December 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Singapore\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9789819237524\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50805712322700,"sku":"9789819237524","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789819237524.jpg?v=1781791594","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9789819237524","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}