The Formation of Democracy and Local Governance in Russia

Abstract

During the 1990s, Russian society experienced one of its most difficult crises of system character that encompassed all spheres of public life, including the economy, politics, law and culture. Its major features were political system instability, disorder in domestic industries and agriculture, a catastrophic reduction of the population and a deterioration of the overall health, the impoverishment of the overwhelming majority of the citizens and a crisis of system of social services.

We want to thank Alexey Kobayakov and Kirill Kobayakov helped us with the statistical analysis, and Galina Tsvetkova who helped us to organize the surveys.