ISBN:
9780199977833
Language:
English
Pages:
255 S.
,
graph. Darst.
,
24 cm
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg.: Mickiewicz, Ellen Propper No illusions
DDC:
320.947
Keywords:
Political leadership
;
Political culture
;
Democracy
;
College students Attitudes
;
College students Interviews
;
Öffentliche Meinung
;
Student
;
Schüler
;
Meinung
;
Internationale Politik
;
Politisches System
;
Politisches Verhalten
;
Internet
;
Zukunft
;
Umfrage
;
Demoskopie
;
Russia (Federation) Politics and government 1991-
;
Russland
;
Russland
;
Politische Führung
;
Zukunft
;
Russland
;
Jugend
;
Elite
;
Weltbild
Abstract:
"What will the next generation of Russian leaders be like? How will they regard the United States, democracy, free speech, and immigration? What do they think of their current leaders? And what sorts of tactics will they bring to international negotiating tables, political and otherwise? Splinters in the Ice provides an engaging, intimate, and unprecedented window onto the mindsets of the next generation of leaders in Russian politics, business, and economics. In it, Ellen Mickiewicz, one of the world's foremost experts on Russian media, politics and culture, draws on interviews with students in Russia's three most elite universities, the training grounds for all of the nation's leadership. Allowing these students to speak in their own words, she shares their thoughts on international relations, the domestic and international media, democratic movements, and their government. She also shows how their total immersion in the world of the internet - an immersion that sets them apart from the current generation of Russian leadership and much of the rest of the country - frames the way that they think and affects their trust in their leaders, the media, and their colleagues. Mickiewicz also looks at the nation's recent protests and nascent political movements to show how they came about and to consider what promise, if any, they might hold for a more democratic Russia. "--
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note:Introduction -- Chapter 1: America Refracted -- Chapter 2: Russian Leaders -- Chapter 3: Should I Take a Chance on Trust? -- Chapter 4: Life on the Russian Internet -- Chapter 5: Different Faces of Demonstrations and One Experiment Carving Democracy in the Internet -- Chapter 6: Game Changers, Reprisals and Political Competition -- Chapter 7: The Future Takes Shape -- Notes -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
