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100	1		_aGILL Graeme
245			_aImages of Russia in Western scholarship/ _cGraeme Gill
260			_c2021
520			_aInitially Western scholars generally assumed that Russia would become a 'normal' democratic state, taking its place in the existing world order. They attributed this to Yeltsin's democratic credentials, but they could do so only by ignoring the clear flaws in Russian democracy as it developed under his presidency. This means that when Russia moved in a more authoritarian direction under Yeltsin's successor Vladimir Putin, the explanation that most gave for this was the agency of Putin. He was seen as reinstating many of the elements of the Soviet legacy, including the role of the security apparatus. Putin's rise was also seen as decisive in the shift of Russia's international position from one seeking accommodation within the existing international architecture to one seeking to revise that architecture in ways objectionable to the West. The result is said to be a new cold war. But there is disagreement about how this should be understood: is Russia acting as a traditional great power, and therefore understandable through the established principles of international relations, or is she still claiming Soviet-style exceptionalism? What is clear, and many do not appreciate, is that even when Putin has gone, Russia's core interests will likely not change.
650			_aRUSSIA _xDEMOCRACY _xPUTIN _xSOVIET LEGACY _xNEW COLD WAR
773			_aAustralian Journal of International Affairs: _gVol.75 Issue 6, December 2021, pp. 637-649 (36)
598			_aRUSSIA
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10357718.2021.1992142 _zClick here for full text
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