Contemporary Belarus: Between Democracy and Dictatorship

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of tables......Page 8
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Note on translation and transliteration......Page 18
Introduction: paradoxes of democratisation in post-communist Belarus......Page 20
History and politics in post-Soviet Belarus: the foundations......Page 40
Explaining post-communist authoritarianism in Belarus......Page 55
Difficulties of elite formation in Belarus after 1991......Page 72
Party system development in post-communist Belarus......Page 87
Electoral politics of Belarus compared......Page 104
President and opposition: specific features of the Belarusian political scene......Page 119
Belarus: in search of national identity between 1986 and 2000......Page 131
Path-dependence and the economy of Belarus: the consequences of late reforms......Page 144
Economic policy in Belarus from official and oppositional perspectives......Page 156
Russia and Belarus: the quest for the union; or who will pay for Belarus\'s path to recovery?......Page 171
Belarus\'s external relations......Page 184
Belarus\'s relations with the European Union: a western perspective......Page 198
Afterword: the presidential election of September 2001......Page 212
Index......Page 216