Russia: Lost in Transition

Historically, the relationship between Russia and the West is at best unstable. Russia has been "attacked" from the Crimean War of the 1950s to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 until the collapse of the Cold War and the Soviet Union. This forces them to adopt self-sufficiency and self-sufficiency based thinking. Russia reacted negatively to these behaviors when Western countries tried to strengthen Russian democracy in the 21st century. It was thought of as "invasion". Therefore, it is important to ask what role the West plays in Russia's development and the factors that impede it.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia turned into a distorted form of democracy, falling into an economic downturn. For Russians, the 1990s lost confidence in the government, but also lacked a national identity as they tried to shift from communism to free markets and democracy with economic difficulties. In most cases, Boris Yeltsin, who is responsible, also pays attention to state agencies like KGB and divides them into seven smaller departments. All this brings the pump to the air gap for a strong person

In the 1990s American leaders and many others in the West thought that Russia is the most important test case for the transition to democracy. Today, the consensus of the Western scientific analysis concludes that this transition will not be successful if Russia is democratic. This paper attempts to draw out some major lessons about democratization from a comparative perspective in the post communist empirical study. The argument that the first national election after the collapse of the dictatorship regime showed a decisive breakthrough in democratization struggle was not the case in Russia. However, the shrinking democracy and the integration of a semi - authoritarian regime were made during Russia 's competitive election.

One of the main lessons from the Russian events in the early 1990s to the present is that it is not irreversible to change the form of authoritarian rule, often called transition to democracy. Some democratic transitions may prove superficial, and Russia 's change after communism provides a good example of a shallow transition. The academic literature on the transition to democracy that appeared in the early 1980s deviated from the early development of social, economic and cultural situations that emphasized the institutionalization of democracy in the political system. Russian experience may encourage us to review the long-term trend of promoting or curbing the development of democratic institutions.