The Inextricable Ties Between Society and The Army in Post-Soviet Russia: The Resurgence of Shefstvo Under Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin
Shefstvo, the creation of patronage relations between units of the armed forces and local governments, is a Russian practice dating back to the 1920s. Though it nearly disappeared at the end of the Soviet era, it re-emerged in the 1990’s when rampant inflation, reductions in military spending and em...
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Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Sociétés et les Institutions Post-Soviétiques
2008-07-01
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| Series: | Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/pipss/1813 |