• 1: Alex Pravda: Archie Brown


• 2: Alex Pravda: Introduction: Putin in Perspective


• 3: George Breslauer: Regimes of Political Consolidation: The Putin Presidency in Soviet and Post-Soviet Perspective


• 4: Robert Service: Soviet Political Leadership and 'Sovietological' Modelling


• 5: Leslie Holmes: Russian Corruption and State Weakness in Comparative Post-Communist Perspective


• 6: Timothy J. Colton: Putin and the Attenuation of Russian Democracy


• 7: Paul Chaisty: Majority Control and Executive Dominance: Parliament-President Relations in Putin's Russia


• 8: Stephen Whitefield: Putin's Popularity and its Implications for Democracy in Russia


• 9: Eugene Huskey: Putin as Patron: Cadres Policy in the Russian Transition


• 10: William Tompson: Putin and the 'Oligarchs': A Two-Sided Commitment Problem


• 11: Neil Melvin: Putin's Reform of the Russian Federation


• 12: Lilia Shevtsova: Vladimir Putin's Political Choice: Towards Bureaucratic Authoritarianism


• 13: Andrei Grachev: Putin's Foreign Policy Choices


• An Annotated Bibliography of Published Work by Archie Brown

Bringing together leading Russian specialists from around the globe, this is a key assessment of the leadership of Vladimir Putin as he embarks upon his second term in the Kremlin. Leading Russia highlights the ambiguities and contradictions inherent in the project of a leader using traditional heavy-handed methods to create a modern and efficient political and economic system.