Immensité et despotisme, le pouvoir en Russie.

Since the sixteenth century, Russia has been a vast country when compared to other states. Historically, power has always been exercised in a despotic way : the Tsarist autocracy led the way to the dictactorship of the Soviet proletariat. Since 1992, the official project has been a tendancy towards democracy but spatial inertia has impeded this development. Tsarist regimes (except between 1861 and 1917) and the Soviet regime have been carefully preventing any change to the spatial structure [...]