Tatarstan : : a 'can-do' culture : President Mintimer Shaimiev and the power of common sense / / Ravil Bukharaev.

• Author: Bukharaev, Ravilʹ.
• Place / Publishing House: Folkestone, UK : : Global Oriental,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Brill eBook titles
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

In 1994, the term ‘Tatarstan model’ came into use to describe the path which one of Russia’s constituent republics had adopted during the unprecedented conditions of its transformation from a Soviet-period pseudo-autonomous entity into a democratic market-economy state. Since then, this particular model of development has attracted increasing attention from both domestic Russian and international observers, not least on account of its enduring ethnic and religious multiculturalism. Focusing as it does on one of the most interesting and unusual regional examples of the Russian market transformation, successfully piloted by the republic’s long-serving President Mintimer Shaimiev, this book also argues that whilst there may be no third way between democracy and tyranny, also in economic terms, there may be and, indeed, are different forms of successful transition not necessarily foreseen or properly understood by Western observers.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / R. Bukharaev -- Introduction: The Moment Of Truth / R. Bukharaev -- 1. Blessed Is The Motion Of Life (Harakatta Barakat) / R. Bukharaev -- 2. The Word Unuttered / R. Bukharaev -- 3. End Of Symmetry / R. Bukharaev -- 4. Kazan Gateway / R. Bukharaev -- 5. ‘Village Culture’ / R. Bukharaev -- 6. ‘We Need Millions Of Proprietors’ / R. Bukharaev -- 7. Mother Tongue / R. Bukharaev -- 8. Tatarstan In The Global World / R. Bukharaev -- 9. The National Idea / R. Bukharaev -- Index / R. Bukharaev -- Plates / R. Bukharaev.