Introduction: the 1993 election and the new Russian politics / Timothy J. Colton -- Institutional rules and party formation / Jerry F. Hough -- Determinants of the party vote / Timothy J. Colton -- Russia's choice: the perils of revolutionary democracy / Michael McFaul -- Between the extremes: the moderate reformist and centrist blocs / Daniel Treisman -- Right and left in the hard opposition / Evelyn Davidheiser -- Television and the campaign / Laura Roselle Helvey -- The press and the campaign: comprehensive but fragmented coverage / Joel M. Ostrow --The mass media and the electorate / Timothy J. Colton -- Public opinion and the constitutional referendum / Timothy J Colton -- Preserving the radical stronghold: the election in Moscow / Judith Kullberg -- St. Petersburg : the election in the democratic metropolis / Yitzhak M. Brudny -- Sverdlovsk : mixed results in a hotbed of regional autonomy / Robert G. Moser -- Nizhnii Novgorod : the dual structure of political space / Nigel Gould-Davies -- Political ambition, elite competition, and electoral success in Saratov Oblast / Regina Smyth -- Kursk: a preserve of communism / Neil J. Melvin -- The Kuzbass : liberals, populists, and labor / Stephen Crowley -- Primor'e : local politics and a coalition for reform / Katherine G. Burns -- Bashkortostan : the logic of ethnic machine politics and democratic consolidation / Henry E. Hale -- Tatarstan: elite bargaining and ethnic separatism / Pauline Jones Luong -- The failure of party formation and the future of Russian democracy / Jerry F. Hough.