Chapter Fifteen. Of Power and Greatness

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Foreword xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter One. Missing in Translation: Re-conceptualizing Russia’s Developmental State 9
8. Chapter Two. The Long Road to Normalcy: Where Russia Now Stands 41
9. Chapter Three. The Sovereign Bureaucracy in Russia’s Modernizations 73
10. Chapter Four. The Changing Dynamics of Russian Politics 87
11. Chapter Five. Leadership and the Politics of Modernization 115
12. Chapter Six. The Sociology of Post-reform Russia 145
13. Chapter Seven. Elites: The Choice for Modernization 191
14. Chapter Eight. Education for an Innovative Russia 225
15. Chapter Nine. Health and Health Care in Russia Today and Tomorrow 245
16. Chapter Ten. The Imaginary Curtain 271
17. Chapter Eleven. What Kind of a Europe for What Kind of Russia 301
18. Chapter Twelve. The Obama Administration’s “Reset Button” for Russia 327
19. Chapter Thirteen. Russia: The Eastern Dimension 353
20. Chapter Fourteen. Russia and the Newly Independent States of Central Asia: Relations Transformed 383
21. Chapter Fifteen. Of Power and Greatness 407
22. Afterword. Russia and the West: Toward Understanding 433
23. Contributors 459
24. Index 463