Publication
2009
The troubled birth of the 1993 Russian Constitution remains one of the most controversial aspects of post-Soviet Russian history. What was originally conceived as a deliberate, collaborative process was ultimately resolved by violence when, in the aftermath of the October 1993 shelling of the White House, a new constitution backed by President Yeltsin was quickly adopted through a national vote. Yet despite its inauspicious beginnings, the Russian Constitution celebrated its 15th anniversary in December 2008.
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| Author | Lee Hamilton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Alexei Avtonomov, Sergei Pashin, Oleg Rumyantsev, Peter Solomon, Alexei Trochev, Alexander Lebedev, Eugene Huskey, Andrei Illarionov, Victor Sheinis, Regina Smyth, Leonid Volkov, Jeffrey Kahn, Vladimir Mazaev, William Butler, Viktor Kuvaldin, Vladimir Lafitsky, William Pomeranz |
| Series | Kennan Institute Occasional Papers |
| Issue | 304 |
| Publisher | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS) |
| Copyright | © 2009 Kennan Institute |