@article{678187,
      recid = {678187},
      author = {Urban, Michael E.,},
      title = {Cultures of power in post-Communist Russia an analysis of  elite political discourse / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 216 p.)},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {"In Russian politics reliable information is scarce,  formal relations are of relatively little significance, and  things are seldom what they seem. Applying an original  theory of political language to narratives taken from  interviews with 34 of Russia's leading political figures,  Michael Urban explores the ways in which political actors  construct themselves with words. By tracing individual  narratives back to the discourses available to speakers, he  identifies what can and cannot be intelligibly said within  the bounds of the country's political culture, and then  documents how elites rely on the personal elements of  political discourse at the expense of those addressed to  the political community. Urban shows that this discursive  orientation is congruent with social relations prevailing  in Russia and helps to account for the fact that, despite  two revolutions proclaiming democracy in the last century,  Russia remains an authoritarian state"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/678187},
}