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8 - Authoritarian Reconsolidation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Steven Rosefielde  and
Stefan Hedlund
Steven Rosefielde
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Stefan Hedlund
Affiliation:
Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
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Box 8.1 Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, born October 7, 1952, in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) served two terms as president of Russia (2000–08), where he engineered its Muscovite authoritarian reconsolidation. He became acting president on December 31, 1999. His mother was a factory worker, and his father was a sailor in the Soviet submarine corp. His paternal grandfather was Lenin's and Stalin's personal cook. Putin graduated from the International Branch of the Law Department of the Leningrad State University in 1975. He was a Communist Party member and KGB recruit, working in the Leningrad regional Directorate, where he first became acquainted with his future first deputy prime minister, Sergei Ivanov. From 1985 to 1990, he was stationed in Dresden, East Germany. He formally resigned from the KGB on August 20, 1991, during the abortive putsch against Gorbachev. In May 1990, Putin was appointed Mayor Sobchak's adviser on international affairs. He then moved to Moscow to assume the position of a deputy chief of the Presidential Property Management Department headed by Pavel Borodin in June 1996. On March 26, 1997, President Boris Yeltsin appointed him deputy chief of the presidential staff, and chief of the Main Control Directorate of the Presidential Property Management Department (until June 1998). During this period, Putin defended his Candidate of Science dissertation in economics on June 27, 1997, large portions of which William King and David Cleland claim were cribbed from their book on Strategic Planning and Policy. On July 25, 1998, Yeltsin appointed Putin head of the FSB, and on August 9, 1999, he became one of three first deputy prime ministers. […]

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Russia Since 1980 , pp. 139 - 153
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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