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Making predictions about Russian politics based on comparative political analysis is akin to ‘measuring Russia’s build unique with a common yardstick’, which Fyodor Tyutchev once warned against. Russia’s ‘build unique’ is usually associated with defining it as a ‘country stuck in transition’ or ‘a nation at crossroads’. To use an ex contrario argument, the unique aspects of Russian political development can be formulated by analyzing political decisions that differ from the decisions of other states that find themselves at a comparable stage of political development.
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Makarenko, B. (2013). Frameworks of Political System Development. In: Lipman, M., Petrov, N. (eds) Russia 2025. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137336910_9
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