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Virtual politics : faking democracy in the post-Soviet world

"This book uncovers the sophisticated techniques of the 'virtual' political system used to legitimise post-Soviet regimes: entire fake parties, phantom political rivals and 'scarecrow' opponents. And it exposes the paramount role of the mass media in projecting these creations and in falsifying the entire political process."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
Yale University Press, New Haven, ©2005
xviii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780300095456, 0300095457
57236118
Introduction
'Active measures' : a Russian tradition
Politics as virtuality in the post-Soviet world
The 'political technologist' : Machiavelli as corporate adviser
'Administrative resources'
Politics as theatre : disguising the state holding company
How many towers in the Kremlin? the 'many-layered pie'
Dishing the opposition
Inventing the opposition : Kremlin parties
Inventing the opposition : virtual communists
Conclusions