POL 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Nomenklatura, Russian Culture
Document Summary
Those upset about the declining russian power/ussr [red-brown coalition: old nomenklatura are no longer in power/have status, far right nationalists are losing their land > loss of russian culture. Wanted to extended russian power far [imperialist: kgb, hardline communist > see an end of a dream and feel betrayed, all these people will converge and share the same enemy. Blame the west for the collapse of the soviet union. Gridlock : yeltsin dissolves parliament & then parliament impeaches him implications for russian democracy. Legitimacy issue: the branches of government have no respect for each other, each branch is contradicting the other. He gives a speech & orders the military to fire on the russian military buildings. Created more harm against his liberal belief. Diminishes the status/view of parliament since the government is firing on parliament. Displays the general weakness of the democratic regime. Liberals are now disillusioned with yeltsin: starts to look like the old soviet leaders.
