Russian Constitutionalism

<p>Medushevsky examines constitutionalism in Russia from Tsarist times to the present. He traces the different attitudes to constitutionalism in political thought and in practice at different periods showing how the balance between authoritarianism and liberalism has shifted. In addition he discusses the importance of constitutional developments for societies in transition and concludes that post-communist constitutional development in Russia is still far from complete. As an empirical resource <em>Russian Constitutionalism</em> takes a longer historical view than other books on this topic and it also goes further than this in its interpretive approach providing a greater understanding of Russian constitutionalism.</p>