Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 'Active measures' : a Russian tradition
  • Politics as virtuality in the post-Soviet world
  • The 'political technologist' : Machiavelli as corporate adviser
  • 'Administrative resources'
  • Politics as theatre : disguising the state holding company
  • How many towers in the Kremlin? the 'many-layered pie'
  • Dishing the opposition
  • Inventing the opposition : Kremlin parties
  • Inventing the opposition : virtual communists
  • Conclusions.