After a highly successful series of revisions of his originalGorbachev in Power (1990), which ultimately became AfterGorbachev (1993 and 1994), Stephen White has written anentirely new book that takes stock of contemporary Russianpolitics after nearly a decade of postcommunist experience.He draws upon a mass of new and newly available data,including archival materials, survey data, memoirs and peri-odical literature, interviews with political principals, and aseries of Russian elections at the national, regional, and locallevel. White has written a very solid companion to any courseon the structure, dynamics, and economic and social conse-quences of Russian and, to a certain extent, postcommunistpolitics.