Download or read book Presidential Power in Russia written by Eugene Huskey and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presidential Power in Russia inaugurates a new library of volumes on each of the major institutions of the new Russian political system. It is the first major assessment of the role of the presidency in Russia's difficult transition from communist rule. Eugene Huskey presents a nuanced evaluation of the presidency as a political institution and in relation to the other leading institutions of state. Although this is not a biography of Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first president and his allies and rivals loom large in the story of this critical phase in the creation of a new Russian political system.